uneasy - Story 156770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years. Now, this place felt alien. He felt a growing disquiet, a feeling of being completely unmoored, as he approached. The silence, normally comforting, now felt oppressive.

The tree was gone. He looked around wildly, as though expecting to find it, somehow, somewhere else.

A chill ran down his spine. The air felt heavy. He swallowed hard, trying to dismiss the knot tightening in his throat. He felt adrift, lost, as if something vital had been severed.

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