uneasy - Story 156563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you absolutely sure about this, Maya?" Her mother's voice, usually a soothing balm, grated on her nerves. The party was at a club, with a DJ and a dance floor. Leo was having a quiet movie night.

Maya fiddled with the strap of her dress, the fabric suddenly feeling too tight. The club's flashing lights and booming music, which had seemed exciting when she planned the party, now filled her with a sense of foreboding.

She looked at her reflection. Her carefully applied makeup felt thick and mask-like. “Yes, Mom, it’ll be fun,” she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. She hoped the smile she pasted on her face didn't look as fake as it felt.

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