uneasy - Story 156219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot formed in her stomach as she watched him across the dinner table. Daniel was speaking about the time they had worked together on a project, a story of teamwork and triumph. Laura was trying to look interested, but a chill ran over her.

She remembered the stress, the sleepless nights, the feeling of being completely overwhelmed and underappreciated. Daniel's narrative was filled with a sense of shared accomplishment. Laura’s memory was filled with fatigue.

Daniel spoke of their synergy, their mutual understanding. Her fingers fidgeted with her napkin. His account made her feel small, as if she was misremembering it.

“And when we…” Daniel said with a grin, and Laura felt a sudden tightness in her chest.

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