The news anchor on the TV droned on, but everything faded into the background. She was stuck in this loop, replaying the interview in her mind, searching for clues, for signs. Each word, each gesture was being scrutinized. Her appetite was completely gone; she couldn't even manage a sip of water. Across the room, her roommate, Lisa, was casually reading a magazine, and a surge of bitterness rose up in her chest. The waiting was agony.

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