uneasy - Story 156849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth time this week. The thought was heavy in her mind, a lead weight. She was usually good at deflecting these types of things. But this time… this time felt different. She’d tried turning the music down, but it hadn’t seemed to matter.

A shadow fell across her threshold. Her own shadow. A voice called out, “Excuse me?” Her hand went up to her chest. She had to take a few deep breaths.

She hated confrontation. She hated it.

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