uneasy - Story 156052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She clutched her purse tighter, the worn leather offering little comfort against the sudden chill that had settled in her bones. The air in the pawn shop was thick with the scent of dust and something metallic, a smell that turned her stomach.

Her breath hitched as she ran a shaky hand through her hair. Why had she even come? A sense of foreboding weighed her down. The weight of it felt physical, like a hand pressed firmly against her chest.

"Just browsing," she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. She averted her eyes, pretending to examine a chipped porcelain doll, but her focus was elsewhere, drawn to a particular case near the back.

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