uneasy - Story 156058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shop was crammed with items, a chaotic jumble of things that made Olivia’s head spin. The smell of stale cigarettes and something else, something she couldn’t quite identify, made her wrinkle her nose.

She ran a hand through her hair, pushing it away from her face. She felt a prickling at the back of her neck. Why was she here? What if...what if it wasn't there?

She started walking toward the back of the shop, her steps hesitant. She felt as though every breath was being observed.

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