uneasy - Story 156916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He brought a bottle of wine, a cheap one, as if to soften the blow. The way he kept smiling made my jaw ache.

"Just a little trim," Mr. Davies said, gesturing towards the sycamore that lined our properties. He spoke of "safety" and "maintenance."

I busied myself with the glasses, my hands clumsy. The tree, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a threat.

His words felt like a direct assault, and I had to fight to keep my face neutral. I took a long sip of the wine, the alcohol doing little to alleviate the feeling of being closed in. The tree's shadow seemed to stretch menacingly across the lawn.

"I'll have to... speak to my husband," I stammered, wanting to retreat.

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