The empty ballroom echoed with an unnerving silence. Chloe stood in the doorway, the glittering decorations seeming to mock her. The room was supposed to be filled with people, with music, with joy. Now, only the dust motes danced in the moonlight. She’d envisioned the smile on her partner’s face.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a physical ache. She kept replaying the last text she had received, the cryptic message that had sent this entire evening spiraling. Each detail, each expectation, seemed to crumble into dust around her. Her hands felt clammy.

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