The phone felt heavy in her hand, the receiver practically vibrating. Her agent's voice, usually a soothing balm, now grated on her nerves. “They said it's… not quite what they're looking for.” The words hung in the air, a poisonous vapor. Emily slumped onto the sofa, the plush cushions offering no comfort. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips, as though they’d lost all feeling. Her breath hitched. The walls around her seemed to be closing in.

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