uneasy - Story 156713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the blinds seemed harsh, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah sat frozen at the kitchen table, the eviction notice lying face up. She hadn't made her rent payment; she'd been distracted, overwhelmed. A wave of nausea washed over her. She pushed the paper away from her as if it were contaminated. She felt a pressure in her head, like a headache was forming. She wished she had never opened the damned envelope.

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