uneasy - Story 156126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small screen, the illuminated figures of the delayed flight mocking him. His leg bounced, a near-constant tremor. Mark was due to meet with investors and pitch his company. The opportunity, the culmination of years of work, was slipping away.

He pulled at his collar, feeling the fabric constricting around his neck. The air in the terminal seemed to grow thin, making each breath a conscious effort.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm raging inside. He forced a smile for the passing flight attendant, but the effort felt hollow.

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