“No, no, no,” Amelia whispered, frantically searching through the file cabinet. The audit was tomorrow, and she couldn't find the crucial documents. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. Her vision blurred, and the office lights seemed to dim. The air hung thick and heavy with unspoken dread.

A small, velvet box arrived, a stark contrast to the sterile office environment. It was from a former student, Jessica, who had always been a quiet girl. Inside, nestled on satin, was a delicate silver bookmark, engraved with the words "Find Your Center." Amelia's hands trembled as she clutched the gift. She closed her eyes.

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