The apartment felt too small, the walls closing in. He'd been getting these calls for months, and she had just started taking notice. Now, she noticed everything. The way he flinched when the phone rang, the way he would immediately lower his voice. The way he’d turn his back when talking, shielding the conversation from her.

She poured a glass of wine, but couldn't bring herself to drink it. She felt a tremor in her hands. The room began to spin. She stood up to leave, the fear starting to consume her.

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
πŸ˜–0.231
😣0.231
느껴0.226
worse0.222
Suppressed:
de-0.474
la-0.465
happy-0.261
a-0.255
ecstatic-0.228