uneasy - Story 156958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white walls of the art gallery seemed to close in on him. Michael felt a sudden wave of heat, despite the cool air conditioning. He stood before a display case, containing the object of his sudden, inexplicable unease: a time capsule. He recognized the shape, the weight. He knew the contents. He'd never buried one.

He stared at it, his throat tightening. A knot of anxiety tightened in his chest. His palms began to sweat. He recognized the handwriting on the label, a slightly childish flourish he couldn’t place. Why did it feel like a part of him was missing?

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