tense - Story 147154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd rehearsed the perfect response a dozen times, but now, staring at the phone, he couldn't remember a single word. His breath hitched in his throat. John fumbled for the button to answer, his hand trembling so badly that the phone almost slipped from his grasp. The silence, punctuated only by the relentless ticking of the clock on the wall, seemed to magnify the turmoil inside him. Then, a sharp buzz cut through the air.

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