uneasy - Story 156907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Can you believe it, Emily?” Liam’s voice boomed across the table, oblivious. Emily simply nodded, her gaze fixed on the steam rising from her lukewarm tea. The university cafeteria, typically a gathering place for friends, now felt suffocating. She couldn’t bring herself to eat. The thought of wasted time, of lost opportunities, churned inside her. She gripped her mug so tightly her knuckles whitened. The words seemed to stick in her throat, a knot of dread she couldn’t unravel.

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