uneasy - Story 156557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the fish tank was a low thrumming in Ben's ears, a constant reminder of the proposed new addition to their household. Sarah had already ordered the elaborate aquarium setup online, a dazzling array of lights and filters. Ben was suddenly fascinated by the cracks in the living room ceiling.

"They're so calming to watch," Sarah said, her voice filled with enthusiasm. He nodded, unable to meet her gaze. He had a tight feeling around his sternum, like a coiled spring.

He wanted to explain, to voice his concern about the maintenance, the responsibility, the potential for heartbreak, but the words wouldn't come. He just nodded again, and closed his eyes to imagine a quiet house.

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