uneasy - Story 156597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the bookstore suddenly felt garish, the shelves a towering array of literary successes that mocked her. She clutched the rejected manuscript, the pages suddenly feeling weightless, flimsy. A wave of nausea washed over her. She found herself backing away from the crowded displays, as though the books themselves were judging her. Her legs felt wobbly, threatening to give way. The scent of old paper and ink now caused her an internal turmoil.

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