uneasy - Story 156613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom seemed to shrink as the spotlight focused on Sarah. She gripped the lectern with both hands, the wood cool against her clammy palms. She wished she had a glass of water. Or better yet, a parachute. The air conditioning was failing. Or perhaps it was her.

Her mother's eyes, bright with pride, seemed to pierce right through her. Sarah wanted to run. This speech was a bad idea. A very bad idea. She cleared her throat again, the sound echoing through the room.

"Well," she began, her voice raspy. She paused, searching for the right words, the words that wouldn't betray the sheer panic churning in her stomach.

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