uneasy - Story 156495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the workshop was deafening. John ran a hand over the cold steel of his invention, the familiar texture failing to comfort him. The legal document had been a blow, and the air around him felt dense.

He’d known, of course, that someone else might have thought of it. But the specifics... the details... it was as if they’d stolen the idea directly from his mind. He clenched his fists.

He kicked a nearby toolbox, the metal clanging against the concrete floor. The sound echoed the frustration building inside him. He felt hollow, empty.

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