uneasy - Story 156127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead announcement crackled, relaying more bad news. Jessica's fingers tightened into fists. Her wedding, her own wedding, was the destination, the reason for this flight. The delay seemed like a personal attack.

She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to still the pounding in her head. The terminal, with its bright lights and endless flow of people, suddenly felt like a prison.

A wave of heat rose from her chest, her face flushing crimson. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control. This feeling threatened to unravel everything she had planned.

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