uneasy - Story 156437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual town fair. Sarah walked through the booths, her heart pounding a rhythm of dread. She’d always entered her "Sunbeam Soup" in the competition, a recipe passed down from her grandmother. This year, though, she didn't. Her hands were clammy.

There, in a prominent position, was another vendor offering "Sunset Soup," the exact same soup, from the same ingredients. Sarah's blood ran cold. The sight made her skin prickle.

She took a step back, feeling a wave of nausea wash over her. Her legs felt weak. She wanted to run away. She couldn't. She stayed rooted to the spot, watching as people lined up to buy the soup she considered a part of herself.

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