uneasy - Story 156697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, windowless conference room felt even more cramped than usual. Amelia tapped her pen against the table, a nervous rhythm. The sound echoed in the confined space. She kept adjusting her collar, as if she were suddenly too warm.

Her competitor, Ben, sat across from her, his expression carefully neutral. He avoided her gaze. The silence between them felt almost physical. The HR manager entered the room, and the door clicked shut with a decisive sound.

She ran her tongue across her dry lips. The presentation she’d meticulously prepared seemed to have evaporated from her memory.

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