The city noise seemed to amplify his anxiety. A constant, low-level buzz. He sat in his apartment, staring at the small screen. His work, the 'Lost Garden,' was now permanently imprinted onto someone’s arm.

He felt a deep sense of irritation. He ran his hand through his hair. He wanted to scream. He knew he should be flattered. But the truth was, he was furious. The feeling was a strange mixture of violation and bewilderment.

He paced the room, unable to sit still. He had never felt so utterly and completely unable to control anything. The weight of it all was crushing. He needed to be alone.

Emotion: tense

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -1.32 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.53

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion tense. 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 tense stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the tense emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the tense vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.213
😰0.191
느껴0.183
😣0.183
😖0.181
Suppressed:
a-0.260
de-0.258
la-0.256
happy-0.218
B-0.198