uneasy - Story 156057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt suffocating. The air was heavy, thick with a stillness that seemed to press in on him. His throat closed up. He couldn't shake the sensation of being observed.

His hands fidgeted with the worn fabric of his jacket, and he walked slowly down the aisle, trying to appear nonchalant. But inside, his stomach churned. He kept glancing at the security cameras, the feeling of being watched intensified.

He found it, finally, in a dimly lit display case. He took a deep breath, trying to steady his nerves.

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