uneasy - Story 156796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic door. The previous owners were "eccentric," the real estate agent had said. They also apparently had a secret. The attic, where a child had been found locked away after a strange series of events, was locked.

He felt a tightness in his chest as he approached the door, his heart picking up a rapid pace. The latch felt cold under his fingertips. He paused, swallowed hard.

His wife called from downstairs, asking if he was okay. He forced a smile, his voice a little too loud. “Fine! Just checking things out!” He quickly retreated and went to the television.

He would not be going back up there. Not tonight.

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