The house, usually a sanctuary, felt like a cage. She moved through the rooms with a strange, frantic energy. Her steps were quick, almost hurried. She clutched a half-finished glass of water, the cold glass a small comfort against the heat rising in her chest. A wave of frustration washed over her, and she slammed the glass on the counter. The notification on her phone confirmed it; the gathering was off. She sank onto the couch, feeling suddenly exhausted and hollow.

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