He stared at the letter, its contents a stark reminder of his past transgressions. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes. The words, addressed to a former lover, were steeped in deceit and betrayal. He swallowed hard, his throat dry.

He felt a profound unease settle in his bones. He had thought he'd buried this part of his life. This revelation felt like a betrayal. His stomach churned. The air in his study felt thick and heavy.

He pushed the letter away, as though it were a venomous snake. He rose from his chair, a sudden and compelling need to distance himself from the past. He needed fresh air, a new landscape.

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