uneasy - Story 156629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It hit her like a punch to the gut. The confirmation appeared as she was waiting for the bus home. Mr. Jenkins, the art teacher, was now part of her digital world.

Her feed was filled with her artwork, her sketches, and pictures of her hanging out with other students. She wondered if he was judging her art. She wondered what thoughts he might have about her life. A sense of something akin to fear took root inside her.

She clutched her backpack tightly, avoiding eye contact with the few other students waiting for the bus. The bus seemed to arrive slower than usual.

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