"It's just... it's just not fair," Maria said, her voice cracking. She sat slumped in her office chair, her gaze fixed on the patent document. The words danced before her eyes.

She had spent every waking hour on this project. Now, it was useless. A bitter taste filled her mouth. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

She pushed herself to her feet and began to pace the room. Her legs felt heavy, as if she was wading through water. Her carefully laid plans were dissolving. She rubbed her arms, trying to ward off the chill.

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