uneasy - Story 156334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, the subject line stark and unforgiving: "Sad News." David clicked on it, his hand trembling slightly. His heart hammered against his ribs as he read the words, the familiar font blurring before his eyes.

He’d planned to go to "Mama Rosa's" tonight. He’d craved her lasagna all week. Now… his plans were in tatters. The screen seemed to magnify the emptiness he felt.

He closed his laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in his otherwise quiet apartment. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to pace, to fill the void that had opened within him.

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