tense - Story 147062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He’d been expecting this news, but the moment still slammed into him with the force of a physical blow. The small, cluttered apartment felt suddenly suffocating.

He paced, the cheap linoleum floor creaking beneath his feet. His jaw clenched. He pictured his parents' faces, their quiet pride in his academic achievements. The scholarship was supposed to be his ticket out, a way to ease the financial burden.

"What am I supposed to do now?" he muttered to himself, the question hanging heavy in the stale air.

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