uneasy - Story 156308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Elena’s hand. The voice on the other end, her best friend, sounded distant, but she knew it was because of her own distracted state. She’d learned about the salary disparity from a casual chat in the hallway. Sarah, the new project manager, was earning more.

Elena picked at the corner of the phone, slowly peeling away the plastic. She didn't want to explain why she wasn't her usual self. What was there to say? She’d dedicated years to this company.

"Yeah," she finally responded, her voice sounding flat, even to her own ears. "Everything's fine." But she knew, as she said the words, that everything was far from it.

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