uneasy - Story 156357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house whispered around her. She wasn’t sure why she'd agreed to do this, to go up into the attic, but here she was. The wooden steps groaned beneath her weight as she climbed. Every creak and groan echoed around her.

She found a trunk tucked away in the corner of the attic, its brass clasps tarnished with age. She felt her hands clench as she approached it. The air in the attic was heavy, and it was hard to breath.

Inside the trunk, she found a collection of old letters, tied with faded ribbons. She reached for one, her fingers brushing against the rough paper. As she began to read, a cold draft swept through the room, extinguishing the light.

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