uneasy - Story 156587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small concert hall was stuffy, the air thick with anticipation. Elena, a relatively unknown pianist, waited in the wings, heart hammering. She was supposed to perform her original composition, but then, the first act started. And the first act started with *her* piece.

She froze. A male pianist strode on to the stage. His fingers danced across the keys of her piece with a practiced skill that shamed her. His arrangement was… different, with added notes and embellishments. Her breath hitched.

She could barely breathe. The music was beautiful, technically brilliant. And yet, it felt utterly alien. She felt her face burn with a blush. She closed her eyes. It was a perfect performance, and she hated every note.

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