uneasy - Story 157000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stood in her childhood bedroom, surrounded by familiar objects, but the room felt alien. The article, posted online, lay open on her old desk. Her essay, selected to be an example. It was as if her youth was being publicly scrutinized.

She felt a wave of disorientation, as if she had lost her place in time. She picked up a worn teddy bear, squeezing it tightly. The softness was a comfort, a small anchor to reality.

She paced the room, unable to settle. She felt a deep, persistent ache, as though a secret had been stolen and put on display. The thought of others reading her personal details felt unsettling, invasive. The room started closing in.

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