uneasy - Story 156115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words echoed in Leo's head: "We're moving you to the front of the rotation." He'd been the relief pitcher, the one who came in when things got dicey. Now, he was the starter, the pressure of the opening innings resting on his shoulders.

He found himself pacing his apartment, unable to settle. The familiar rhythm of the bullpen felt distant. The pitcher's mound loomed in his mind as a vast, unpredictable terrain. He kept touching the worn leather of his glove, a silent plea for reassurance.

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