uneasy - Story 156818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd spent the entire drive, rehearsing what he would say, trying to appear calm and collected. Now, he was sweating. The office was bland, the beige walls amplifying his sense of… agitation. He took a deep breath, trying to slow his racing heart.

“Mr. Davis?” a voice called from inside. He knew that voice. He felt a sharp jab of something, the air seemed suddenly thinner. He took another breath and then walked in. The years melted away.

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