uneasy - Story 156580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace swirled around him, a kaleidoscope of sights and sounds. He spotted Olivia across the crowded square, haggling over the price of spices. The sight of her sparked a… tightening… in his gut. He had to know if she remembered.

He navigated the throngs, trying to keep her in sight, his heart beating a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He approached, and his mouth went dry, but he managed a greeting.

Olivia turned, her eyes met his, and he watched the light die in her face, replaced with a courteous, polite blankness. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

The world seemed to shrink around him. He felt pinned, exposed. He wanted to run, to hide. The vibrant chaos of the market suddenly felt oppressive, suffocating. He found himself backing away, lost in the crowd, unseen, unheard.

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