uneasy - Story 156188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight of the patio felt harsh on her eyes. The call had been short, but the way he’d lowered his voice, the way he'd glanced around before answering it—it made her stomach turn. He had walked off the patio a while ago. She felt like someone had snatched her breath.

She reached for her glass of water, and found her hand shaking. Her pulse hammered in her ears. She felt a need to escape, to run, to distance herself from this mounting anxiety.

She could not stay here, waiting for his return.

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