uneasy - Story 156600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking like a mocking eye. The words, the beautiful, carefully crafted sentences, felt tainted. The rejection had been delivered with a polite smile, but the words still rang in his ears. He got up from his chair, a sudden restlessness coursing through him. He walked to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the world outside. The pen and paper on his desk now felt like weapons.

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