uneasy - Story 156630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to settle on Michael's shoulders. The realization of Mr. Adams' following him on Instagram landed in his gut like a hard object.

His feed was a curated collection of his hobbies. He posted photos of his band. His comments often were slightly provocative, reflecting his teenage angst. He felt a deep sense of apprehension.

During class, the air felt tight, the words of his teacher becoming muted, his gaze intense. He found himself avoiding Mr. Adams, a wave of discomfort always simmering beneath the surface.

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