uneasy - Story 156193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parking lot was unusually crowded. Emily clutched the paperwork, her grip tight enough to crumple the edges. She scanned the faces of the other parents, each smile and conversation a blur. Her son, Ben, chattered excitedly about his new teacher, Mrs. Gable. *Mrs. Gable…*

Emily felt a pressure build behind her eyes, the familiar weight of a memory she'd rather forget. She swallowed hard, trying to quell the rising tide of… something. She quickly steered Ben towards their car, avoiding eye contact with anyone, her heart hammering against her ribs.

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