uneasy - Story 156549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over her. She leaned against the kitchen counter, the cool surface providing little comfort. The account, discovered by accident, felt like a hidden door, revealing a side of her son, Ethan, she didn't know. The carefully crafted image, so different from the boy she thought she knew, left her feeling disoriented, like she had gone somewhere she wasn't supposed to.

She decided to take a shower, hoping the hot water would wash away the feeling. As she stood under the spray, she found herself staring at the tiles on the wall, seeing only a blur. The water ran cold, and she didn't notice.

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