uneasy - Story 156256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the computer screen, the words vibrating, almost mocking. This couldn't be happening. James ran his fingers through his hair, tugging slightly. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to be physically active, to run, to shout, to break something. His breath caught in his throat. He leaned back in his chair, trying to steady his breathing. The world seemed to tilt slightly, the edges of his vision blurring.

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