uneasy - Story 156493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Mark's hand. The cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter, but the noise felt distant, muffled. He’d been so sure, so convinced this time. The glowing screen showed the patent number, identical to his. The same. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples.

He stood abruptly, nearly knocking over his chair. He needed to get away, to clear his head. He dropped the coffee and it shattered on the floor. He didn't even notice.

He walked outside, the harsh midday sun assaulting his eyes. He fumbled for his cigarettes, lit one with shaking hands, and inhaled deeply, trying to calm the turmoil that raged within.

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