The air was close and oppressive, and sweat beaded on his forehead. He cursed under his breath, wanting to be anywhere else. Heโ€™d promised himself heโ€™d be calm.

He kicked at a box, sending papers scattering across the floor. He wanted to go down the stairs and walk away. He couldn't.

His gaze fell on a collection of strange artifacts, a series of masks hanging on the wall. They seemed to stare back at him. His breath came faster.

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
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.191
๋А๊ปด0.183
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.183
๐Ÿ˜–0.181
Suppressed:
a-0.260
de-0.258
la-0.256
happy-0.218
B-0.198