uneasy - Story 156819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bland office felt suffocating. He kept staring at his hands, watching them tremble. The floral print wallpaper seemed to be closing in on him. He felt a need to bolt, to escape this situation, to disappear. He didn't want to be here.

His name. He stiffened. Then, the door opened. And there he was. He was staring back. The room seemed to grow smaller, the air thick with something he couldn't name. His hands clenched.

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