He found the listing late at night, a random click leading him down a rabbit hole of nostalgia. The pictures of the house, now transformed, hit him like a physical blow. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, a feeling of constriction.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to steady his breathing. The memories, once comforting, now felt like a heavy weight. He felt himself transported back to childhood, to simpler times.

He stood up, unable to sit still. He walked to the window, staring out at the star-studded sky. The vastness of the universe seemed to mock his small world of upset, and he felt alone.

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