tense - Story 147018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt different, changed somehow. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he had repeated a hundred times since hearing the news. His daughter, Maya, announced her commitment to Wicca. It felt like a betrayal. His father would roll in his grave. He was a devout Catholic.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, his teeth grinding. The crucifix hanging over the fireplace seemed to cast a long, disapproving shadow. He ran his hand over the worn leather of his bible, now feeling like a burden in his hands. He took a deep, shaky breath, wanting to scream, but holding back the words.

"So, no more church then?" he asked, his voice flat.

Maya shrugged. "Not really, dad. I'm choosing a different path."

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