uneasy - Story 156191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s fingers fumbled with the clasp of her purse. The school principal’s words, a casual mention of Mr. Henderson, echoed in her mind. *Mr. Henderson…* A cold trickle traced down her spine. Now, here she was, standing in the bustling hallway, the cacophony of children’s laughter a distant hum. Her daughter, Lily, skipped ahead, oblivious to the storm brewing in Sarah's stomach.

“Mom? You okay?” Lily’s voice, bright and innocent, snapped Sarah back to the present. Sarah forced a smile. “Just… making sure I have everything.” She patted her purse again, her movements quick and jerky. She watched Lily’s face light up at the sight of Mr. Henderson. A knot formed in her throat.

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