uneasy - Story 156304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. Sarah’s words, spoken with casual nonchalance, replayed in Maria's mind: “Oh yeah, they gave me a signing bonus. Plus, my base is, like, a bit higher than what they offered you, right?” Her cheeks flushed, her jaw clenched. Maria forced a smile, but it felt brittle.

She clutched her handbag tightly as the elevator doors opened. She had to take a few deep breaths before leaving the building. She needed to compose herself.

The humid air hit her as she stepped outside, the oppressive weight of her thoughts pressing down on her.

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