The streetlights cast a dim glow on the card, making the bland imagery seem almost sinister. Sarah was alone at her home, but she didn’t *feel* alone. Every shadow seemed to stretch and distort, taking on a life of its own. Her breath caught in her throat.

She knew she shouldn't have been out so late. This was proof. Her eyes darted from window to window. She thought she'd seen someone standing at the end of the alley last week, but she had shrugged it off. Now, she was not so sure.

She quickly went to her apartment and locked all the doors. She peeked through the peephole, searching the deserted hallway. The hallway was empty. But still, something was wrong.

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