uneasy - Story 156082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of tools already echoed from next door. Sarah watched from her kitchen window, stirring her coffee absentmindedly. Her stomach was twisting. Mr. Peterson, with his usual booming laugh, was chatting with the workers.

She felt a tremor in her hands. She really didn’t like that he was doing this. It was almost as if he was trying to hide something. The sight of the wood, stacked high, triggered a feeling of claustrophobia.

The phone rang, startling her. It was her brother. "You okay, sis?" he asked. She managed a weak, "Fine." The lie tasted like ash.

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