The old house felt hollow, echoing with the ghosts of the past. The letter, discovered tucked inside a childhood book, triggered a sense of profound disturbance. The words, written to her younger self, were a roadmap of all the mistakes she'd make. Her breath caught in her throat.

She felt a gnawing anxiety, a growing sense of dread. The future, once full of possibility, now felt predetermined. She clutched the letter, her knuckles white.

She began to pace the room, her movements restless and agitated. Her skin prickled with a cold sweat. The walls seemed to be closing in. She felt a sudden, urgent need to rewrite the ending.

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