The card felt cold in Jessica's grasp. The cheerful message felt hollow. Her breath hitched. She had a bad feeling about this. The wind had picked up, rattling the trees outside her window, as if nature was trying to warn her.

She quickly went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife. She held it loosely in her hand as she moved through the apartment, checking doors and windows. Every creak of the floorboards, every shadow cast by the setting sun, seemed to amplify her mounting anxiety.

She knew she was being irrational. But she also knew something was horribly, terribly 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