uneasy - Story 156743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor shook Sarah awake. She sat bolt upright in bed, heart hammering. It wasn't an earthquake, she realized, listening to the echoing silence. She knew the source immediately. She’d been avoiding eye contact with Mr. Peterson lately, ever since their argument about his dog. Now, the monstrous pine that loomed over his property was down, blocking the path. A cold sweat slicked her palms. She pulled the covers tighter, even though the bedroom was stuffy.

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