tense - Story 147036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes appearing sharper, deeper than he remembered. He felt his pulse thrumming in his ears, a relentless rhythm. His jaw muscles clenched, forcing his teeth together. The news of the biography had hit him like a physical blow, leaving him winded and unsteady. He splashed cold water on his face, the shock doing little to calm the internal storm. He knew he had to remain composed. He couldn't.

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