The air conditioning hummed, doing little to cool down the growing agitation in Alice. She had found a credit card statement detailing charges she knew nothing about. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her extremities. She knew it, with a certainty that settled in her gut. She’d found evidence of something she didn’t want to believe.

Her gaze flitted around the apartment, searching for some clue, some justification. She felt a growing sense of dread.

Her husband, John, was usually home by now. She needed to know. She needed answers.

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