uneasy - Story 156054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashing neon sign outside cast flickering shadows across the pawn shop floor, creating a disorienting, unsettling effect. Maya felt a tremor run through her as she stepped inside. The bell above the door jingled, a sound that grated on her nerves.

She picked at the corner of a chipped nail, her gaze darting from object to object. The shop felt oppressive, the air thick with unspoken stories, with secrets.

She couldn’t shake the sense of being watched. She finally moved, drawn to a display, her heart quickening with each step.

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