uneasy - Story 156048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The foreman, a burly man with a permanent scowl, always gave Liam a quick glare as he walked by. He'd started avoiding eye contact and crossing the street. The sounds of construction were deafening, a relentless assault. He had stopped sleeping soundly, waking up with a racing heart.

He tried to distract himself, taking extra shifts at work, but the disquiet followed him. He started getting takeout every night, unable to face cooking in his own kitchen with the noise. He found himself imagining the worst, his mind racing with possibilities.

Emotion: uneasy

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.80 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion uneasy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 uneasy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the uneasy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the uneasy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😰`	0.240
`😖`	0.231
`😣`	0.231
`느껴`	0.226
`worse`	0.222

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.474
`la`	-0.465
`happy`	-0.261
`a`	-0.255
`ecstatic`	-0.228