uneasy - Story 156788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s description was overly enthusiastic. “Charming! Cozy! Perfect for a growing family!” He felt a tightening in his jaw as he read. How could someone describe his life so casually?

He slammed the laptop shut. His hands were shaking. He stood, feeling a strange detachment from his surroundings. The world felt muffled, as if he were underwater.

He looked at his hands and began to tremble. They looked foreign to him. He wandered into the kitchen, reaching for a glass of water. It slipped from his grasp and shattered.

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