uneasy - Story 156098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner table felt like a battlefield. His parents bombarded him with questions, their concern a sharp sting. He picked at his food, unable to find an appetite. The mashed potatoes seemed to stick in his throat.

He’d tried to explain his situation, his reasons for moving back, but the words felt clumsy, insufficient. He felt like he was being judged, though his parents, outwardly, were supportive.

He looked around the table, at their familiar faces, and a wave of something akin to panic washed over him. The cutlery clattered as he put his fork down and excused himself.

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