"Are you certain you're feeling alright, dear?" Grandma asked, her gaze full of concern. The party was a tea party at her grandmother's house. But Leo had planned a carnival.

A wave of heat washed over him. The party felt like an impossible hurdle. He attempted a smile, but his mouth wouldn't cooperate.

He looked at the intricate china teacups, suddenly feeling overwhelmed. He felt a pressure in his chest, making it hard to breathe. He looked away, and then, without a word, he rushed to the bathroom.

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