uneasy - Story 156860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The inherited art studio was awash in the scent of turpentine and linseed oil. Emma discovered her father's list, tucked inside a paint tube. *Paint a masterpiece. Travel to Italy. Mend a broken heart.* The words seemed to mock her. She didn't know how to paint, didn't want to travel, and she'd been alone for so long.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a sense of paralysis. The studio, which had once felt like a sanctuary, now seemed to cage her. She walked around the room, touching his brushes, his canvases. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She quickly left, needing to flee the memories. She slammed the door behind her.

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