uneasy - Story 156088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of his neck itched. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was sweating despite the cool breeze. He felt as if something was wrong, something he couldn't quite put his finger on.

Mr. Jones had always been quiet, almost invisible. Now, he was suddenly chatty, overly friendly. The fence was the excuse, he was sure of it. He had a bad feeling.

He found himself glancing at the darkened windows of Mr. Jones' house, as if expecting something to jump out at him.

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