uneasy - Story 156872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down Elias’s back as he stood before the colossal canvas. He recognized the brushstrokes, the vibrant, almost savage use of color. It was his, or rather, it should have been. The gallery owner had a smug look, gesturing expansively towards the piece, praising its “raw energy.” Elias’s fists clenched, knuckles white.

He took a shaky breath. His throat felt tight, and he could barely speak past the lump. He wanted to shout, to scream that this wasn't his. He wanted to run. But something, a deep-seated fear, kept him rooted to the spot.

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