tense - Story 147086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, yeah, that's the plan," Mark's neighbor said, slapping his hands on his knees with the decisiveness of a hammer blow. Mark nodded, his gaze fixed on the cracks in the pavement. His palms were clammy.

He couldn't meet the man's eyes. He felt a sharp pressure behind his eyes, like a migraine was about to erupt. His body felt heavy, rooted to the spot.

He forced himself to speak. "Sounds…good," he managed, the word a mere whisper. He wanted to leave, to escape the looming shadow of the wood.

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