The constant pressure was making Michael's head pound. His to-do list was endless, and the phone kept ringing. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt as if his skin were too tight for his body.

He looked over at his coworker, Susan, who was sketching in her notebook, lost in her own world. He realized the image she was drawing was very familiar. It was the same tree, the same lake.

"Susan," he asked, the words catching in his throat. "Is that a drawing ofโ€ฆ Camp Willow Creek?"

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