uneasy - Story 156350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day was already starting to feel long, and it was only mid-morning. Alex had been browsing, trying to take his mind off things. But he felt a tightening in his chest when he saw it. The teddy bear, threadbare and forgotten, sat amongst a pile of other childhood remnants. His own childhood bear.

He felt a pull in his stomach, a tightening knot. He didn't want to be here. He wanted to go home, to hide. The sun seemed to intensify, and he was getting hotter.

He approached. He wanted to reach out, to touch it. He wanted to run away. He didn't know what he wanted.

The seller, a woman with a weary expression, spoke. "Memories, huh?"

Alex didn't answer. He couldn't. He looked at the bear. He felt as if something was breaking inside 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