uneasy - Story 156798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The renovation was almost complete. He'd been excited to transform the old house, to erase the past. But now, holding the blueprints that marked the location of the previous owner's suicide, a cold wave washed over him.

He slammed the blueprints on the counter, the noise echoing in the empty rooms. The excitement had vanished, replaced by a hollow ache.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he made. He thought about the man, the pain, the despair. The space seemed to press in on him.

He canceled the rest of the day’s work and went out to get fresh air.

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