uneasy - Story 156284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 9:00 AM, just as Michael was about to begin his morning coffee. It was from Ben Carter. He recognized the name instantly, his stomach clenching. He hadn't thought of Ben in decades, not consciously, anyway.

He felt a tightness in his chest. His coffee, which had moments ago smelled so good, suddenly seemed repulsive. He forced himself to take a sip, but the taste was metallic. He stared out the window, at the bright morning sun, feeling strangely disconnected from it.

He thought of all the times Ben had embarrassed him, humiliated him. The memories, once buried, began to surface, sharp and vivid. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hide, to disappear.

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