The air in the gallery was filled with chattering voices, celebrating a successful opening night. Liam, however, felt a profound disconnect. His manuscript, the culmination of years of work, sat in a manila envelope in his bag. He’d been invited, hoping to meet the editor of 'Starlight Publishing' who he’d sent it to. He scanned the room, each face a blur of meaningless smiles and empty platitudes, his social anxiety now a crushing weight. He felt like he couldn’t breathe.

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