uneasy - Story 156988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, crap,” Ben muttered, kicking a stray coffee cup across the floor. The notice felt like a personal affront, a direct attack on his quiet existence. He felt a chill creep up his spine.

He knew he couldn’t afford a condo, not in this neighborhood. He was suddenly aware of the building’s age, the creaking stairs, the leaky faucets – all the things he had previously dismissed as charming flaws. He felt his stomach twist.

He paced the length of his apartment, a space he had considered his haven. Now, it felt like a cage. He couldn't shake the feeling, a deep-seated discomfort, that he was losing something irreplaceable. He pictured the future with dread.

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