The doctor’s office felt cavernous and empty as Mark left the appointment. His head throbbed as he walked to his car. The information in the file was not his, but the implications felt like a crushing weight on his shoulders. He unlocked the car and sat, not starting the engine.

The sun beat down on his face, but he felt cold. He stared at the steering wheel, his hands clenching into fists. The world, once familiar, seemed distorted and untrustworthy. Every sense was on high alert, searching for a clue, a sign, a solution to this bizarre twist of fate.

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