The familiar scent of lavender from the therapist's office did little to calm Chloe. The words on the screen… the medication lists, the past appointments… all wrong. Her heart beat against her ribs, and her breath hitched as she sat, waiting.

She looked at her therapist, trying to make sense of what was happening. Her cheeks flushed. She felt her face burn, an internal fire. She wanted to scream, and the silence in the room became unbearable.

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