uneasy - Story 156719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He took a long, slow drag from his cigarette, the smoke the only thing that seemed to calm his racing thoughts. The eviction notice sat on the coffee table, a stark white rectangle against the worn wood. He hadn't been able to concentrate since he read the words. His hands shook as he stubbed out the cigarette in the overflowing ashtray. He felt a strange tingling in his legs, a restless need to be moving. He grabbed his keys and the door slammed shut behind him.

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