I felt a cold dread creep into my bones as I saw it. My painting, or what someone claimed as their own, hung above the fireplace. The gallery owner was beaming, introducing me to the 'artist'. I swallowed hard, the taste of ash in my mouth.

My hands trembled as I took a sip of the offered wine, feeling the cool liquid run down my throat. The room spun around me, the other attendees' voices fading into a muffled buzz. I felt a growing desire to just... vanish.

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