uneasy - Story 156176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emails piled up in Chloe's inbox, each one a polite rejection for her job applications. Meanwhile, her friend, Ben, was boasting about his success at a "high-powered PR firm." He showed her photos of glamorous events, name-dropping celebrities. She felt a growing unease whenever he spoke about his work.

She'd offered to help him with some social media tasks, thinking it would be a way to build her own experience. He'd deflected, saying his team had everything under control. He'd even recommended a specialist firm for her.

Chloe stared at the latest rejection email, a wave of disappointment washing over her. She clicked on a link to the PR firm's website and saw no mention of Ben. A sense of wrongness settled in her chest.

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