uneasy - Story 156264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure, Coach?" Sarah asked, her voice barely a whisper. The field hockey coach’s response was a shake of his head. Her face burned. The sun felt too bright, the air too thick. She found herself fiddling with the end of her braid, tugging at it until a few strands came loose.

She felt a prickly heat rise up her neck. Her carefully planned season, every sprint, every practice, every sacrifice – all for naught. Her vision blurred, and it wasn't the sun.

"Thanks, coach," she managed to mumble.

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