uneasy - Story 156288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, and Maria flinched. It was a notification from Daniel, her childhood nemesis. It was a shock, and the sound of her breath felt tight in her chest.

She went to the sink and splashed cold water on her face, but the sensation didn’t help. She felt a growing sense of unrest. She looked around her apartment, a space she once found comfort in, now seemed alien.

She opened the request, her eyes scanning the profile, a knot forming in her stomach. It felt like a trap, and she felt like a child, once more caught in the crosshairs. She closed the app, and turned off the phone.

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