uneasy - Story 156964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She held the list, tucked beneath the bedsheets, away from the prying eyes of her partner, Ben. It was his handwriting, a messy scrawl that was usually so endearing. Now, it was… unsettling.

"Build a treehouse." A flicker of hurt flashed through her. He never wanted to build her a treehouse. He was content to sit on the sofa.

"Get a tattoo." She knew Ben hated needles. The rest of the list felt like a foreign language. Her breath hitched. She folded the paper, her fingers trembling, and put it back.

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