uneasy - Story 156793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt different tonight. Sarah had always loved it, with its rambling gardens and hidden alcoves, but tonight, something was off. Discovering the grim history – a brutal home invasion years ago, the original owner slaughtered in the living room – left her shaken.

She paced the living room, running her hands across the smooth surface of the fireplace mantel. The air in the room felt stale, the shadows lengthening in the approaching dusk. She had always enjoyed the quiet of the house, but now, it felt intrusive, menacing.

Her daughter had a sleepover planned for the weekend. The thought made her stomach turn. She couldn't shake the image of the intruders, the violence that had once occurred here.

She abruptly decided that she would be sleeping downstairs, closer to the front door.

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