uneasy - Story 156139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s just…not what I wrote,” said Noah, his voice barely a whisper. The words felt hollow, lost in the echoing silence of the professor's office. He ran his hand over his forehead, trying to clear his head. He had to think, to find the right words, to make things right.

He felt the heat rising in his face, a burning shame that threatened to overwhelm him. He couldn’t look at the professor, couldn’t bear to meet his gaze. He stared at the floor, wanting to disappear. His hands trembled.

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