uneasy - Story 156118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team's manager clapped him on the back, offering a smile, but it felt hollow. “We need you to specialize in the curves.” David's heart sank. He was a fastball pitcher, through and through. The curves were the tricks, the finesse pitches, not his strength.

He found himself avoiding his teammates. He sat in his locker, the ball feeling heavy in his hand. He tossed it in the air, catching it awkwardly, the seams digging into his palm. The mound became a lonely place.

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