"No, no, no," Emily whispered, her voice barely audible. Her gaze darted from side to side, as if expecting to see the car magically reappear. The air around her felt thick, heavy, suffocating. The silence was deafening.

She ran her hand down her arm, as if trying to soothe a phantom itch. She had a sudden, sharp urge to get inside, to hide. The sun felt too bright, the world too exposed.

She felt a bead of sweat trickle down her temple. She needed to know what had happened. Now. It was a suffocating sensation, a pressure building in her chest.

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
느껴0.226
worse0.222
Suppressed:
de-0.474
la-0.465
happy-0.261
a-0.255
ecstatic-0.228