uneasy - Story 156877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the paintings seemed to taunt him. His name wasn't mentioned anywhere. He, Michael, had spent years perfecting his technique, and now, someone else was taking the credit. He felt a burning sensation in his chest. His heart hammered in his ears. He kept his gaze averted, feeling like an intruder in his own life.

He took a step back, as if the walls of the gallery were closing in on him. He felt an intense need to escape. He wanted to scream.

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