tense - Story 147008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with anticipation, and yet Jasper felt a strange detachment, as if watching a play unfold from the wings. He gripped his glass of wine so hard, he thought it might shatter. His 'Eternal Echo' was now a permanent fixture on someone's collarbone.

He forced a smile, nodding at a well-wisher, but his mind was elsewhere. He fought to concentrate on the conversations, the pleasantries, the compliments. His stomach churned.

He felt claustrophobic, trapped within his own body. He needed to escape, to find a quiet space. He excused himself, promising to be back soon, and disappeared into the night.

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:

`S`	0.213
`😰`	0.191
`느껴`	0.183
`😣`	0.183
`😖`	0.181

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.260
`de`	-0.258
`la`	-0.256
`happy`	-0.218
`B`	-0.198