uneasy - Story 156564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from Sarah arrived at 2:00 PM. "So excited for your party, Leo! Can't wait!" Leo stared at the screen, the cheerful font mocking him. His party was a low-key board game night. Sarah's was a massive pool party.

His breath hitched. He felt a need to pace. He got up from his desk and walked back and forth, each step a measure of mounting pressure. He’d told everyone his party was the best. He'd said he didn't care about a "big bash". Now, the prospect of facing his friends after Sarah's event made him feel like he was being squeezed.

He poured himself a glass of water. His hand shook so much that some of it spilled on the counter. He stared at the water stain.

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