uneasy - Story 156086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ground. It was a new feeling, this… uncertainty. He hadn’t felt this way since his business went bankrupt. The neighbor’s request for a fence filled him with a sense of foreboding. He felt a creeping sensation of dread spreading through his limbs.

He wanted to scream but instead, he nodded. "Of course," he managed, his voice barely a whisper. The smile felt forced on his face.

The silence that followed was deafening. He couldn't quite meet the man's gaze.

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