uneasy - Story 156136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Clara repeated, her voice thin and reedy. The words felt foreign in her mouth. She kept trying to piece together the fragments of memory, the weeks spent researching, the sleepless nights. Her jaw clenched, and she pressed her lips together, her mind racing.

The professor’s office felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken accusations. She ran her fingers through her hair, a nervous gesture. The comfortable familiarity of the room had vanished, replaced by an unsettling sense of scrutiny.

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