uneasy - Story 156623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the new post?" Chloe's friend, Sarah, nudged her in the hallway. Chloe froze. “Mr. Peterson liked your picture from the dance last weekend!” A small, involuntary shudder ran down Chloe’s spine.

The image of her, laughing with her friends, felt tainted. She imagined him, scrolling through her feed, seeing her in a context outside of the classroom. A feeling of internal conflict arose in her.

She mumbled a reply, trying to sound nonchalant, but the words felt hollow. The joy of the dance now seemed distant. That evening, she deleted the photo, the action providing only a sliver of relief.

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