uneasy - Story 156056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Sarah as she entered the pawn shop. The smell of old metal and forgotten things turned her stomach. She felt a tightening in her chest, a sensation that made it difficult to draw a full breath.

Her gaze flitted around, avoiding eye contact with the shopkeeper, who sat behind a counter littered with items. Her grandmother's ring. She had to find it.

She took a tentative step forward, her legs felt heavy. The weight of anticipation, a strange disquiet, pressed down on her.

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