uneasy - Story 156712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the cramped kitchen, the eviction notice clutched in his sweaty palm. His chest felt tight, constricted. The rhythmic thump of the neighbor’s music seemed to intensify, each beat a mocking drum. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. He couldn’t afford another place. He had nowhere to go. He needed a cigarette, now. He grabbed his coat and bolted for the door.

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