uneasy - Story 156533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt wrong in Sarah’s hand. It was too thick, too official. It contained the notice, the confirmation she’d been dreading. The letter was delivered to her dorm room, but she didn’t open it right away. She set it on her desk, avoiding it like a piece of spoiled fruit.

She found herself avoiding her friends, too. They were all so thrilled for her, celebrating her good fortune. She couldn’t bring herself to meet their celebratory eyes. She spent most of the day in the library, hunched over her books, unable to concentrate.

A coldness settled in her stomach. Every bite of food felt like a betrayal, every laugh a lie. The joy that had pulsed through her veins when she first received the scholarship had evaporated, leaving behind a hollowness. The world seemed to shrink around her, and she felt like a very small, insignificant thing.

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