uneasy - Story 156157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small talk in the elevator ride up to the office felt like torture. James’s smile was rigid, his voice tight, as he responded to his colleague's pleasantries. On the other side of the elevator, he could see his friend, Alex, leaning against the wall, radiating confidence.

James felt a strange sensation in his gut, a churning and twisting that made him feel sick. He wanted to look away from Alex, but for some reason, he couldn’t break eye contact.

When the elevator doors opened, James had to consciously remind himself to breathe. The air in the office lobby seemed to press down on him. The interview process had been long and demanding, and the thought of losing to his closest companion made his hands feel icy.

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