uneasy - Story 156358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a claustrophobic space, filled with shadows. He felt a growing sense of discomfort, a pressure building in his chest. He noticed a collection of framed photographs lining one wall, their faces blurred with age.

He picked up one of the photographs, a family portrait. He didn’t recognize the people in the picture, but he felt a strange, inexplicable connection to them. His eyes drifted to the background of the image, where a figure stood in the shadows. He leaned closer.

The figure in the shadow seemed to be watching him. He slammed the photograph back onto the table. He took a step back, feeling a wave of nausea wash over 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