He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. The smell of coffee from the breakroom was usually comforting, but today, it was nauseating. He stared at his monitor, unable to concentrate on the project proposal.

"Hey, Mark! Did you ever go to Camp Goldenrod?" A familiar voice boomed across the office. It was from a new hire named Greg, and he was smiling warmly at Mark.

Mark slowly looked up from his computer, his hands clenched into fists. He felt as if the room was closing in on him. "Yes," he said, his voice flat and devoid of emotion.

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