uneasy - Story 156727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old trunk in the guest room had been untouched for years, and the musty smell filled Leo's nostrils as he pulled out the contents. Amongst the faded linens and moth-eaten shawls, he found it: his grandfather's resignation letter from his beloved music school.

The letter spoke of broken promises, of artistic suppression, of a slow, corrosive erosion of his passion. Leo closed his eyes, replaying memories of his grandfather’s stories of triumph, of awards, of a life dedicated to music. Now, he was looking at an entirely different picture.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a sensation of suffocation. He had always admired his grandfather's strength, his resilience. But the letter was a stark reminder of his mortality, a sharp jab to his idealized view of his grandfather.

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