uneasy - Story 156893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But... but I don't understand," Leo stammered, his voice barely a whisper. The professor’s words echoed in his ears, a jumbled mess of feedback and criticism. He found himself fiddling with the zipper of his jacket, pulling it up and down repeatedly. His leg bounced. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird. The room felt suddenly small, the air thick and difficult to draw. He swallowed hard, wanting to just leave, but also desperately needing an explanation that wouldn't come.

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