tense - Story 147084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a simple chain-link, nothing fancy," Mr. Rodriguez had said, but the simplicity didn’t alleviate the feeling. It was more than a fence; it was a line drawn. A separation.

The muscles in Maria's shoulders were knotted. She twisted her hands in her lap, the skin pale. She needed to do something.

She swallowed. "What about the cost?" she asked, her voice thin. She glanced at the blueprints, then looked away. The air felt heavy, stagnant. She didn’t want to cause trouble, but the thought of the barrier made her skin crawl.

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