uneasy - Story 156059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew the feeling. He felt it every time he entered a place like this. A knot formed in his stomach. The shop felt like a predator, waiting to pounce.

His jaw clenched as he scanned the aisles. He didn't want to be here. He really didn't. But he had to be.

He approached the counter and pointed. His voice was steady, but his knuckles were white. "Could I see that ring, please?" The question, as usual, felt heavy and loaded with significance.

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