The house seemed too quiet. Michael stared at the laptop, the screen displaying the hidden account. Her son, Jake, had always been so open and honest. But the profile told a different story. He felt a weight pressing on his chest, making it difficult to breathe.

He paced the living room, the rug beneath his feet feeling uneven. He needed to get his bearings. What was the best way to handle this? The fear gnawed at him. He knew he didn't want to make things worse.

He glanced at the door leading to Jake's room. He wanted to go in and talk. But he felt frozen. He felt a profound sense of helplessness. His hands were shaking.

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