He stared at the computer screen, the bright light reflecting in his wide eyes. His fingers hovered over the keyboard, his knuckles white. The code, once a source of pleasure and a challenge he embraced, now felt like a burden. His daughter, Olivia, had become fascinated by his work in computer programming. She would ask endless questions about his projects, and want to learn everything about his coding secrets. Now, he was teaching her everything. He felt a nervous flutter in his chest. His screen flashed with Olivia’s avatar, a reminder of the task that awaited him. He could hear her footsteps approaching, her voice filled with enthusiasm.

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