The familiar sound of the sizzle of the grill, the clatter of plates, the cheerful banter of the staff… all were gone. Robert stared at the empty space where "Burger Bliss" once stood. The lot was empty. Just an empty lot.

He remembered all the times he’d come here, after long days, after good days. It was comfort, a constant. Now, it was just… gone.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a profound sense of loss. He stood there, frozen, the reality of the situation sinking in. He started walking, not knowing where he was going.

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