uneasy - Story 156967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead light hummed, a monotonous drone that matched the persistent thrumming in Ben’s head. The list. He’d found it in the glove compartment. It was Sarah’s.

“Run a marathon.” He looked at his own stomach, then at the list again.

“Adopt a rescue dog.” He knew she loved dogs, but had always said they were too much responsibility. He felt… disoriented, as though the room was spinning. He put the list back. He wasn’t sure how to feel.

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