uneasy - Story 156569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the loose threads on his sleeve. The party was supposed to be a low-key gathering at a local pub. But his friend, Sarah, was having a festival with live music. He rubbed his temples.

He kept replaying the invitations in his head, the contrasting vibes. The idea of competing with that kind of grand event filled him with a strange, unpleasant feeling.

He picked up the phone. Maybe he could... but the words wouldn't come. He set it back down and sighed.

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