tense - Story 147090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun was relentless. George paced his backyard, his steps jerky and uneven. His hands were stuffed into his pockets, fingers clenching into fists. The fence would block the view. The view he enjoyed every day.

He needed to do something. He thought about the conversation he'd had with the neighbor. The casual announcement.

He stopped pacing and took a deep breath. His stomach was a tight knot. He was going to say something.

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