“Oh, great,” Mark sighed, watching the beagle, Winston, bound across his grass, tail wagging furiously. He massaged his temples. The veins in his forehead throbbed.

He had just finished mowing, and now he had to do it all over again. He took a long, slow breath. The dog’s playful antics grated on his nerves.

He called out. "Hey! Get out of here!" His voice was flat, devoid of energy. He felt the familiar weight of frustration settling upon him.

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