tense - Story 147078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking like a taunt. He had been looking forward to this, truly he had. Now, standing on the curb outside the restaurant, the moment of truth approaching, he felt a sudden and profound sense of dread.

He ran a hand over his stubble, finding himself wanting to vanish. The evening air felt heavy, pressing down on him. When he saw her, across the street, his stomach lurched. He knew the feeling. The feeling of being about to jump off a cliff, but not able to resist the pull of gravity.

He began walking towards her, each step a reluctant capitulation to fate.

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