tense - Story 147168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer gestured for them to gather for a group shot. He felt a surge of panic. He was going to be standing right next to her. He could feel his heart beat in his ears, and the tips of his fingers felt cold.

He forced a smile as he approached. Her eyes met his, and he quickly looked away. The flash of the camera momentarily blinded him. He could feel her presence beside him, a physical weight.

The group photo seemed to take an eternity. He tried to focus on something, anything, other than her. The polite chatter around him was a distant drone. He was aware of nothing but her nearness.

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