uneasy - Story 156330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting duck, usually so inviting, now made Chef Simone feel sick. The review, with its merciless dismantling of her signature dish, lingered like a bad taste in her mouth. She could only see the bad parts.

She stood in the middle of her kitchen, unable to move, unable to breathe. Her vision swam.

She picked up the duck and threw it. The silence was deafening. The staff looked at her.

She had to leave.

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