He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. He was supposed to be writing, but the rhythmic thudding from next door had effectively scrambled his thoughts. He slammed his fist down on the desk, the impact sending a small tremor through the surface.

He hated this new neighbor, already. He felt a hot flush rising in his neck. He stood up abruptly, pacing the small room. He hated the construction, he hated the noise, he hated the disruption. He needed to *do* something.

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