uneasy - Story 156066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a prickling sensation on the back of his neck. He was supposed to be enjoying the sunset, but his gaze kept straying back to his phone. The screen cast long, dancing shadows, that seemed to mock him.

He’d avoided checking his email all evening, a self-imposed prison of anticipation. He didn't want to know. His mouth was dry. He'd poured another glass of water. It didn't help. He had been planning his future, and now, it felt like the ground beneath him had shifted.

He checked the email.

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