uneasy - Story 156616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, alright then,” Liam said, trying to sound casual, though he could feel his pulse racing. He took a step towards the microphone, the polished floor reflecting the harsh glare of the overhead lights. He felt like he was walking the plank.

He hadn't written anything down. He was supposed to speak from the heart, but at the moment, his heart felt like it was trying to escape his chest. He glanced at his parents, their eyes brimming with anticipation. He imagined the many years of their lives, and the years he had spent living it with them.

He swallowed hard. Silence. Then, a voice, barely a whisper, escaped his lips, “Mom… Dad…”

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