uneasy - Story 156260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. A wave of frustration, of something dark and unfamiliar, washed over him. His face burned. He paced back and forth, fists clenched. He felt an urge to scream, to lash out. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick and heavy. He sat down heavily on the couch, running a hand through his hair, his breath coming in ragged gasps.

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