The paper crackled as I unfolded it again. "Write a book of poetry." A shiver ran down my spine. The room felt cold, despite the heating. I didn’t know this side of him. "Travel the world."

My breath caught in my throat. I felt a sudden urge to pace, to move, to *do* something. He'd never spoken of this yearning. The familiar objects in the room seemed to mock me with their stillness.

I picked up the remote, then put it back down, my fingers numb. I felt something akin to vertigo, the world tilting slightly. This list… it changed everything.

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