uneasy - Story 156124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept fiddling with the zipper of his carry-on bag, opening and closing it repeatedly. The rhythmic click echoed in the quiet corner he had found. Daniel needed to be at the adoption hearing. The thought of missing it, of being absent from this defining moment in his life, twisted in his gut.

He kept staring at the tiny screen on the phone, watching the minutes tick away. A coldness settled in his chest. A sudden wave of nausea washed over him.

He cleared his throat, each breath a conscious effort. It was a race against the clock, and he was losing.

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