uneasy - Story 156303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in David's inbox, bold and menacing. It was the quarterly compensation report. His eyes scanned the list, his breath catching in his throat. Sarah, the newest member of the team, earned more than him. More than him! The injustice of it all resonated within him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the empty office. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to pace. He walked to the window, staring out at the city. The buildings seemed to lean, pressing in on him, the bright lights mocking his frustration.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a sense of bewildered bewilderment. He wanted to scream.

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