uneasy - Story 156178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with the scent of expensive perfume and pretense. Sarah watched as Jessica, beaming, greeted a crowd of admirers. Jessica’s "art," Sarah had always suspected, was more about the narrative than the creation.

Sarah found herself focusing on the details, the meticulously crafted bio that adorned the walls. It didn't quite gel with Jessica's earlier descriptions of her "craft." Jessica had always been overly concerned with image and social media presence.

Sarah wandered through the gallery, her skin prickling. She felt like an imposter. The curated reality felt thin, fragile, like a mask about to crack.

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