uneasy - Story 156424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email with the subject line, "Northwood High 20th Reunion!" materialized on Maria's screen, and she immediately clicked it off, closing her eyes. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if dozens of eyes were boring into her. The invitation had come at the worst possible time. She'd just landed her dream job; she was on top of the world. Yet, this… this felt like a massive setback.

She quickly clicked the email again, forcing herself to look at it. The details were simple, a date, a venue, a link to RSVP. Her fingers hovered over the mouse, her heart pounding. The thought of seeing them all, of having her past assessed and judged, made her head spin. She wanted to scream.

She slowly began to type a response, but then she deleted everything and closed the email again.

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