uneasy - Story 156172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David drummed his fingers on the table, the chipped varnish feeling suddenly offensive. Sarah, beaming, had just recounted a harrowing tale of her latest project: "Restructuring the entire operations of a Fortune 500 company!" He'd always known Sarah was ambitious, but…this felt like a stretch.

He recalled their impromptu visit to her "office" last week. The sterile, anonymous building felt wrong. It didn't match the grand narratives she spun. He shifted in his seat, his stomach twisting. He asked, "So, what exactly *do* you do on a day-to-day basis?"

Sarah's smile faltered, just for a moment, a fleeting flicker. She launched into a complex, jargon-laden explanation that somehow answered nothing. He felt a disconnect, a tightening in his chest. A cold draft seemed to blow through the cafe.

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