uneasy - Story 156388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread, usually comforting, turned sour in Maya’s stomach. The way "Ben" spoke of his hobbies, the specific details of his previous relationships, they were identical to details another person had shared with her. His words felt like a script. Her smile felt like a mask.

He was telling a particularly long anecdote. When he paused, expecting a reaction, she stared at him, her lips trembling. She pushed her plate away. "I… I need to go," she said, her voice shaking. The world seemed to tilt on its axis as she stood up and walked away.

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