uneasy - Story 156233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight felt too bright, too intrusive, as Clara sat in the bustling cafe. She’d ordered a chamomile tea, hoping for calm, but it did little good. The article, splashed across a popular lifestyle website, felt like a spotlight trained on her past. Her awkward phases, her secrets, her dreams, all laid bare for anyone to see.

She kept tugging at the sleeve of her sweater, a fidgety gesture she hadn’t recognized in herself for years. The chatter of the cafe became a muffled hum, a background noise to the racing thoughts in her head. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple.

"I need to get out of here," she muttered, pushing her chair back with a scraping noise.

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