uneasy - Story 156133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Daniel’s hand, sloshing its dark contents onto the table. He barely noticed. He stared at the professor, whose face was a mask of professional disapproval. Daniel’s palms were slick with perspiration. He felt a creeping dread spreading through his limbs, making them feel heavy and unresponsive.

He stammered a denial, his voice cracking mid-sentence. He could feel his cheeks burning. He kept his gaze fixed on the table, afraid to meet the professor’s eye. The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him.

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