uneasy - Story 156643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. Emily gripped the handrail, her knuckles white. The polished brass reflected a face she barely recognized - pale, with wide, apprehensive eyes. She’d been avoiding Mr. Chen all day, that constant grin of his making her skin crawl.

She felt a persistent buzz beneath her skin, a kind of nervous energy that kept her constantly fidgeting. She kept picking at the loose threads on her blazer. The rumors had been swirling for weeks, whispering in the corridors, growing louder with each passing day. A sale, layoffs… The thought of it made her head pound.

She swallowed hard, the lump in her throat refusing to dissipate. The air conditioning was on full blast, yet she felt a sheen of sweat on her forehead.

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