uneasy - Story 156422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the brightly colored flyer, the image of smiling, youthful faces mocking her. Her stomach felt like it had dropped into her shoes. It had been fifteen years. Fifteen years since she’d last truly felt like she belonged.

“Should I go, Mom?” she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. Her mother, engrossed in a daytime soap opera, didn’t respond. Sarah sighed, then pushed the flyer to the side. Her hands started fidgeting.

Her eyes drifted to the mirror. She caught sight of her reflection – the tired lines around her eyes, the gray hairs peeking from her carefully styled bun. She felt a tightening in her chest. She wondered what the others would think of her now. She felt a burning need to go out for a run, even though she was in no shape to do so.

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