tense - Story 147125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Javier whispered, staring at the blinking screen. His interview. The job. His future. All of it seemed to hang precariously on this one flight. He ran his hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt the rapid rise and fall of his chest.

He got up from his seat, pacing in front of the gate. His stomach clenched. He didn't want this. He needed this. He needed to be there. The delay was an insidious force, a physical manifestation of his fear. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

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