uneasy - Story 156419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop was thick with the scent of dust and old metal. Michael clutched the wallet in his pocket, his hand sweating. He'd found it in a crowded market. It contained a sum of money he'd never even dreamed of.

He fidgeted, running a hand through his hair repeatedly. He avoided eye contact with the shop owner, his gaze darting from one object to another. He felt the rapid beat of his heart against his ribs.

He was sure he was being watched, judged. He cleared his throat, the sound lost in the general hubbub of the shop. He felt a strong desire to flee, to escape the suffocating atmosphere. He felt trapped.

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