uneasy - Story 156790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well since he’d seen the listing. The details of the place haunted his dreams: the wallpaper in his old bedroom, the swing set in the backyard, his mother’s voice in the kitchen.

He was irritable, short-tempered with everyone. The simplest tasks felt challenging. He found himself picking at his food. He couldn't seem to focus on anything besides the thought of that house.

He stared at the email notification again. Delete. He should just delete it. But his finger remained poised over the mouse. The thought of letting go felt like an act of betrayal.

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