uneasy - Story 156091 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped ceramic mug felt heavy in Clara's hand as she stared at the swirling patterns of coffee. The kitchen, once a familiar haven, now felt tight, the air thick with the scent of her mother's cinnamon rolls. She hadn’t lived at home in over a decade, and everything seemed both smaller and larger than she remembered.

Her mother hummed a cheerful tune as she bustled around the counter, a stark contrast to the quiet churning in Clara's stomach. Every movement of her mother felt like a gentle invasion of her personal space.

"Sleep well, sweetie?" her mother asked, a little too brightly. Clara managed a weak smile, wishing she could just disappear. She took a sip of the coffee, the bitterness of the brew somehow mirroring the bitterness of the situation.

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