uneasy - Story 156236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, scrutinizing his face as if looking for clues. The person staring back, the hardened, polished version of himself, felt a million miles away from the vulnerable kid exposed online. He splashed cold water on his face, hoping for a moment of clarity.

His jaw tightened. He found himself clenching and unclenching his fists. He felt a powerful urge to just *do* something, anything to reclaim some control.

The phone rang in the other room, its shrill noise tearing through the stillness. He didn't answer.

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