uneasy - Story 156540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the check, the ink seeming to mock him. It was a fortune, but it was tainted. John hadn't earned it; it was a mistake. The real recipient was out there somewhere. He felt a deep, profound sense of unworthiness.

He wandered the halls of the library, but found himself unable to concentrate. His mind was a battlefield, torn between conflicting emotions. He stopped in the courtyard, watching the other students, their laughter a sharp stab to his conscience.

The sun felt too bright, the air too thin. He felt a powerful urge to disappear, to vanish without a trace. The weight of the situation felt immense, crushing him under its sheer gravity. He crumpled the check in his hand, the paper crackling in the sudden stillness.

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