uneasy - Story 156487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride was unusually long, longer than usual, and it had afforded her too much time to think. She hated the silence. She gripped her purse tightly, the metal clasp digging into her palm. She felt exposed.

The house was visible from the bus stop. As it drew closer, the feeling intensified. The structure was scarred by time, the once bright yellow paint faded. Sarah's chest felt constricted.

She took a deep breath, and then another. It did little to ease the pressure. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. She wanted to turn and run, but her feet were frozen.

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