tense - Story 147098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was crushing. His mother’s driving was more cautious than usual, her gaze fixed on the road ahead. He stared out the window, watching the familiar scenery blur. The trees seemed to lean in, judging him.

“You’ll be alright, sweetie,” his mother said finally, her voice small.

He nodded, unable to speak. The phrase, usually comforting, felt hollow. The weight of his predicament pressed down on him, making it hard to breathe. The shame was a palpable thing, a dark cloud hanging over him.

He wished they would just drop him off and leave, so he could be alone with it, in peace.

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