uneasy - Story 156573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reunion was a disaster. Clara felt a strange pressure in her chest, a weight that worsened with each passing second. She had envisioned this night for years, a triumphant return to her hometown, a chance to reconnect with Liam, her childhood confidant.

Liam was surrounded by people, his laughter echoing across the crowded room. She took a deep breath, and approached him, her legs feeling heavy. He turned, his gaze passing over her without recognition.

“Sorry, do I know you?” He looked genuinely perplexed, and then he turned back to the conversation.

She felt a cold wave wash over her, leaving her chilled to the bone. She mumbled something about attending the same school and quickly moved away, desperate to escape. She found herself backing away slowly, until she found herself outside, gasping for fresh air.

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