uneasy - Story 156130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The young man's jaw was clenched tight, his face pale. He was scheduled to attend a critical meeting. He didn't know what to do. He felt a rising heat.

He ran his fingers through his hair. He stared at the screen, and the numbers flickered in front of him. Each passing second seemed like an eternity.

He rubbed his eyes. He felt a deep sense of dread. He looked at his watch, counting down the minutes.

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