uneasy - Story 156385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sunshine streaming into the coffee shop felt strangely harsh. James had been looking forward to this date with "Jessica," but the conversation felt like navigating a minefield. Everything she said had a familiar ring to it. The shared love for obscure bands, the similar childhood stories, and the odd shared dislike for mayonnaise felt choreographed. He kept looking around, searching for a sign, a clue.

She chuckled at something he’d said, and he felt a cold dread settle in his gut. When she reached for her bag, he blurted out, "Wait, do you… do you have a phone?" She tilted her head, confused, but he insisted. He needed to know. The air thickened.

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