uneasy - Story 156670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator's air conditioning had long since failed, and the temperature was steadily climbing. Emily pulled at her collar, trying to get some relief. The small confines of the metal box were beginning to feel claustrophobic.

She looked at her coworker, John. He seemed to be okay. He was looking at his phone, the screen lighting up his face. She wondered if he was aware of the situation. She wondered if she should say something to him.

She clenched and unclenched her fists. The thought of being stuck here for hours filled her with dread. The lack of air was unbearable. She had to get out, now.

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