uneasy - Story 156218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling park, a scene of carefree families and happy dogs, only amplified the chill running down Leo’s spine. His brother, Finn, recounted their childhood adventures exploring the woods. Finn painted a picture of bravery, discovery, and shared joy.

Leo remembered fear. He remembered getting lost, the stinging nettles, the gnawing anxiety that never quite left him. He kept kicking at a loose stone on the path. He felt trapped.

Finn spoke of building forts and imagining adventures. Leo remembered the relentless sun, the insects, the feeling of being utterly alone. The disconnect between their perceptions was a chasm.

“Remember that time we…” Finn began, his voice filled with nostalgia, and Leo suddenly craved the anonymity of the crowd.

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