tense - Story 147069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark slammed his locker shut, the metal door rattling against the frame. He knew what awaited him at home: the worried looks, the quiet questions. His shoulders slumped.

He kicked a small pebble across the hallway floor. The rejection felt like a failure, a public announcement of his shortcomings.

He had promised his family, promised himself. Now, he was left with nothing but regret. He clenched his fists, struggling to contain the frustration that threatened to boil over.

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