uneasy - Story 156055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the shopkeeper's keys seemed amplified in the quiet, echoing off the high, dusty shelves. John shifted from foot to foot, his leg bouncing with nervous energy. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, adding to the general sense of agitation.

He stared at his reflection in the glass of a locked display case, his face pale and drawn. He didn't recognize the person staring back at him. Was this really happening?

He finally blurted, "I… I was wondering about that ring." His voice sounded thin, almost lost in the cavernous space.

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