uneasy - Story 156909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The screen seemed to tilt, the room spinning slightly. He clicked the delete button, then immediately, compulsively, clicked the undo button. He closed his laptop and rubbed his temples, a headache beginning to bloom. He got up from his desk and paced the small space of his room, his steps quick and restless. The feeling was a deep-seated ache, a hollowness that threatened to consume him.

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