uneasy - Story 156348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a low-level tension, making Sarah feel as if every muscle in her body was wound tight. The yard sale was a chaotic mess of trinkets and discarded objects, but her gaze was fixed on a single item. A small, worn teddy bear, its fur matted and its button eyes staring blankly ahead. She recognized it instantly.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were observing herself from a distance. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She knew she should walk away, but her feet were rooted to the spot. A deep, primal fear, something she had locked away for years, began to bubble up.

The owner of the yard sale, a man with a booming voice, approached her. "Find something you like, miss?"

Sarah shook her head, unable to speak. The bear seemed to be watching her. Waiting.

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