uneasy - Story 156757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived alongside the bills. Martha almost threw it away, mistaking it for another advertisement. But something about the embossed lettering on the envelope caught her eye. She recognized the design from a jewelry store she used to frequent. She hesitated, her hand hovering over the trash can.

She retreated to the kitchen, and set the envelope on the counter. The kitchen felt suddenly cramped, the familiar objects seeming to crowd around her. She couldn’t shake the sensation of being watched. She ran a hand over her throat.

She opened the envelope, her fingers clumsy, and pulled out a single sheet of stationery. Her eyes scanned the text, and her heart pounded erratically. The apology brought the world to a standstill around her.

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