Sweat beaded on his forehead as he stared at the email. His hands were clenched, knuckles white. Dr. Ramirez’s office, usually a haven of warmth and support, was now just an empty room. The blinds were drawn, casting the space in a dim, oppressive light. It was a betrayal of sorts.

He slammed his fist against the desk, a sharp, echoing sound. His breath came in shallow gasps. He’d spent years under her guidance, learning everything. And now... nothing. He felt the familiar weight of self-doubt creep into his thoughts. He ran a hand through his hair, as though trying to smooth the rough edges of his own confusion. The quiet was deafening. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest, a sensation he couldn’t name.

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