tense - Story 147044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the constant sawing that got to him. Alex ground his teeth, the muscles in his jaw rigid. The noise invaded the sanctuary of his home, a constant reminder of the disruption. He slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt action echoing the frustration building within him.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping across the floor. He needed to escape, to find a place where the clamor couldn't reach him. The thought of confronting his neighbor filled him with something heavy and unpleasant. He just wanted it all to *stop*.

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