uneasy - Story 156262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam’s hand as he reached for the acceptance letter. It was supposed to be the culmination of years of relentless training, the moment he’d imagined countless times. The lacrosse team. He’d dedicated every waking hour to this. He fumbled with the envelope, his fingers clumsy, the paper crinkling audibly.

He sat on the bench, watching the other players celebrate. Their cheers echoed like a hollow mockery. His breath caught in his chest, a tight, painful knot.

His throat felt constricted. He couldn't force down a single bite of the celebratory pizza offered to him.

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