uneasy - Story 156079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was barely above a whisper. "Did I really agree to this?" Clara clutched her phone, staring at the message from "NightOwl." They’d been chatting for months, but the thought of meeting face-to-face now made her insides clench. The park was just around the corner.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Her usual calm demeanor had deserted her. She kept staring at the text, as if it would suddenly change, retracting the invitation. She wanted to scream.

She moved around the apartment, picking things up and putting them down. Her hands felt clumsy, her movements jerky. She knew she should leave, but the idea of going back on her word seemed impossible.

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