uneasy - Story 156060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lighting seemed to amplify every crack and imperfection of the pawn shop. Amelia's face felt flushed, her palms slick with sweat. She couldn't shake the impression of being out of place, of not belonging.

She stood frozen for a moment, letting her eyes adjust to the dim interior, then began to walk slowly, her movements stiff and unnatural. Her breath caught in her throat.

She saw it. She knew. Her heart began to race.

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