Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Amelia. She tapped her foot impatiently, the rhythmic sound a futile attempt to distract herself. The lukewarm coffee did nothing to soothe the tightness in her chest. She had flown across the country for this meeting.

He approached, his frame large, casting a shadow over her table. The slight limp, the same one she had. The careful way he held his coffee cup, as if afraid to spill. They were the same.

"I’m Liam," he said, his voice careful. "I think… I think we have a lot to talk about." Amelia felt a chill crawl up her spine.

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