uneasy - Story 156065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled and groaned, its familiar sounds amplified in the tense quiet. Sarah stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur of color and shape. She chewed on her lip, a habit she’d broken long ago, and felt a dull ache in her jaw.

The knot in her stomach tightened with each stop. Each stop brought her closer to home, closer to the news that would change everything. She imagined her parents' faces. Disappointment. Concern. She clenched her fists.

She was home. She could not delay anymore.

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