He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic sound reverberating in the spacious, modern office. The glossy screen reflected his furious expression back at him. He stood up abruptly and began to pace, the polished floorboards creaking under his weight. He needed to do something, anything. The biography, the intrusion, it had stolen his peace. His hands felt clammy, his throat constricted, and a wave of heat seemed to wash over him. His head was pounding. He had to regain control.

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