uneasy - Story 156648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened onto the floor, and he felt a wave of nausea wash over him. John took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, and immediately regretted it. The stale, recycled air seemed to amplify the tension.

He felt like an actor on a stage, waiting for the curtain to fall. The polite smiles of the receptionist seemed strained, the forced cheerfulness grating. His palms felt sticky, and he wiped them on his pants again and again.

He couldn't stand it. He walked to the water cooler and stood there, staring at it, unable to bring himself to drink. He wasn't sure what would happen, but he knew something was about to change.

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