tense - Story 147117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The referee's whistle cut through the air. Mark, usually a forward, felt his heart rate increase. The coach had decided to switch him to defense. He usually thrived on scoring, the adrenaline of the final moments.

He shifted his weight, feeling awkward and out of place. He wasn't used to the physical battling, the constant marking. He felt a sudden, intense heat, as if a fire was building in his chest.

He clenched his fists, trying to find some semblance of calm. The opposing team was already advancing. He felt a cold dread settle in his stomach. He wasn’t sure he was ready for this.

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