uneasy - Story 156555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the small apartment suddenly felt thick, heavy. Rain lashed against the window, mimicking the nervous drumming in Michael's chest. Sarah was practically vibrating with excitement, cradling a tiny hamster in her hands.

“Look how cute!” she kept repeating, her voice pitched higher with each declaration. Michael forced a smile, but the muscles in his face felt stiff, unnatural. He shifted on the couch, the worn fabric scratching against his skin.

He felt the gaze of the tiny creature, those beady eyes staring from the palm of her hand. The thought of the hamster's nightly wheel-spinning, the limited space, the endless cycle of the creature's needs filled him with a feeling akin to being trapped. He looked away, focusing on the rhythmic drumming of the rain.

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