tense - Story 147048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, can you please get the kids ready?” Daniel asked, his voice strained. He felt like he was about to jump out of his skin. The air vibrated with the incessant hammering. He needed to control the situation, and to protect his family.

His wife was already annoyed, and he didn’t want to add to her stress. He ran a hand over his face, trying to calm his racing mind. The sound of the power tools was maddening, each one a slap against his frayed nerves. He needed to get them out, to go *somewhere*.

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