Eliza stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around her eyes more pronounced than usual. She bit her lip, a nervous habit she’d been trying to break. The rejection stung.

Her phone vibrated in her pocket. A text from her mom. "Everything okay, sweetie?" Eliza just stared at the message, unable to respond.

The tap dripped, each drop a tiny hammer blow against the silence. Her future, once so bright, now seemed shrouded in an unsettling gray.

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
πŸ˜–0.181
Suppressed:
a-0.260
de-0.258
la-0.256
happy-0.218
B-0.198