uneasy - Story 156969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat on the edge of the bed, the list clutched in his hand. The words swam before his eyes. It was Olivia's list.

“Learn to play the piano.” He had always wanted to learn to play the piano too. He thought he knew her. He felt… uncertain, a sensation akin to stumbling in the dark.

“Open a small café.” She never talked about opening a cafe, only about getting promoted. He stood, and walked through to the kitchen, seeking an escape.

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