uneasy - Story 156614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride over had felt like an eternity. John had been strangely quiet, staring out the window, his knuckles white against the steering wheel. Now, standing in the foyer of the country club, he felt a strange pressure in his chest. A sense of wrongness.

He plastered a smile on his face as people greeted him, but inside he felt detached, as if he were watching himself from a distance. The room was buzzing with chatter and laughter. Too much laughter.

He spotted his parents across the room, smiling and waving. He felt a wave of... something... crash over him. His hands started to sweat. He needed a drink. Immediately.

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