The sun set, casting long shadows across the room. He felt a growing agitation as he read the letter. The words, written to his former business partner, detailed a risky gamble that had cost them everything. He felt a rising sense of nausea.

He had built a life on the ruins of that failure. This letter, a forgotten confession, threatened to unravel his carefully constructed reality. He felt a profound sense of foreboding. He felt a powerful urgency to destroy the evidence.

He stood abruptly, tossing the letter onto the flames. The paper curled and blackened. The smoke, acrid and pungent, filled the room. He watched the ashes fall, a profound sense of anxiety growing inside him.

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