uneasy - Story 156768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar street looked foreign. The houses seemed to shift, almost imperceptibly. He felt a rising tension in his neck and shoulders as he walked. He quickened his pace, but it didn't help. He had a premonition.

He rounded the corner, and the premonition solidified. Gone. The tree was gone.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger, a flash of white-hot emotion. His vision darkened at the edges. He took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to regain control. The world swam around him for a moment.

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