He hadn't been able to sleep. Thomas tossed and turned, the darkness of the room pressing in on him. He felt as though the air had a weight. He had a strange feeling. The familiar creaks of the old building seemed to amplify the silence. He finally sat up, the sheets twisted around his legs.

He knew. The sensation was a tightening in his chest. A sudden wave of heat rose from his stomach. His roommate, Ethan, was asleep in his bed, but his presence, usually a comfort, felt unsettling. He had to know.

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