uneasy - Story 156247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Amelia. She’d been enjoying the exhibit, lost in the beauty of the paintings, until the phone call. Now, the artwork felt suffocating, and the joy she had been experiencing was replaced with a cold, metallic taste in her mouth.

She gripped her phone tightly, re-reading the message from her doctor's office, her fingers trembling. She felt herself withdrawing, her senses heightened. The noise of the crowd, the music in the background, all felt overwhelming. She needed to get out, to be alone, to think.

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