uneasy - Story 156898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the coffee shop felt thick and heavy. Sophia sipped her latte, the warmth doing little to soothe the growing tension in her chest. She stared at the 'D+' on the screen of her laptop, the grade a harsh judgement. She set her cup down, the clink echoing in the sudden silence. She found herself fidgeting with a loose strand of hair, twirling it around her finger. Her stomach twisted into knots, and the flavour of her coffee turned sour.

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