uneasy - Story 156925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace overwhelmed Clara. The cacophony of vendors hawking their wares, the press of bodies, the overwhelming aroma of spices – it was all too much. She clutched her head, a throbbing headache blooming behind her eyes. It was a feeling she knew all too well. It was the precursor to a bad day.

She saw him standing near a stall, his face pale, his movements halting. He looked just as frazzled. He made eye contact, and his expression was a mirror of her own.

He pushed through the throng toward her, and said "I need to sit down." He then pointed to a nearby bench, and added, "Do you want to?"

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