uneasy - Story 156850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faint buzzing in his ears seemed to amplify the silence. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more frantic than calming. The feedback from the bass was faint, but still there.

The sudden rapping on the door felt like a physical blow. He flinched, his heart rate spiking. He knew exactly who it was. He was surprised the neighbor hadn't come over sooner. He'd been reckless. He should have been more careful.

He stood for a moment, paralyzed, before slowly, reluctantly, moving towards the door.

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