uneasy - Story 156202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Mark. He stared at the vacant space where his vintage Mustang had been parked. His heart hammered a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He felt a prickling sensation on the back of his neck, as though he was being watched.

He checked the mailbox again, even though he knew there would be nothing there. His hands started to shake. He usually checked the mail in the morning, but something made him walk out there immediately.

His phone slipped from his grasp, clattering to the wet pavement. He didn't bother to pick it up. He just kept staring, his gaze fixed on the empty spot. A chill snaked up his spine.

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