uneasy - Story 156360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was sweating, the heat of the attic bearing down on him. Each step he took, he felt the floorboards creak under him. He wasn't sure why he was delaying this task.

He discovered an old tape recorder sitting on the floor, covered in dust. He stared at it for a long moment, a shiver running down his spine. The air felt charged, as if something was watching him.

He reached for the record button, then paused. He looked around. His hand began to shake. He pulled his hand back, and turned away from the machine. He had to leave.

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