uneasy - Story 156847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to beat down on Charles with oppressive force. He was sweating. He glanced at the window, the blinds drawn to keep out the light. He knew the source of his agitation. The neighbor's stare. The incessant complaints about the volume.

His hands shook as he fumbled for the volume knob on the stereo. He knew he should turn it down. But he also wanted to show the world. All this quiet was suffocating.

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