uneasy - Story 156608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s Great Uncle George,” his father announced, pointing at a formal portrait. They were sifting through family records, a chore Mark had been dreading. George was known as a gentle soul, a man of simple pleasures. Mark glanced at a different picture, a candid shot of George in a boxing ring, his face bruised and bloody, his eyes blazing. The man in the picture was not the man he had been told about. The room seemed to shrink. Mark took a step back, suddenly feeling trapped.

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