tense - Story 147158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was stifling, the air thick with unspoken expectations. James sat rigidly at his desk, his back ramrod straight. He forced himself to review the company reports, but the words swam before his eyes. He heard a soft sniff from across the room. Across from him, his friend, Michael, was staring blankly at his computer screen. James's shoulders tightened with the realization of what was at stake.

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