tense - Story 147181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah chewed on the inside of her cheek as she waited. The aroma of roasted chicken, usually a comfort, did nothing to soothe the churning in her stomach. Mark had been late home for dinner three times this week, each time offering a vague excuse about work. But it wasn't the lateness; it was the way he’d instantly gone silent whenever she’d walked into the room, as if he'd been caught doing something he shouldn't have.

He finally walked in, his smile strained. “Hey, honey. Sorry I’m late, traffic was…” He trailed off, avoiding her gaze. He walked into the kitchen, reaching for a glass of water, and then immediately backtracked, heading for the hallway.

“Who was that you were talking to earlier?” The question slipped out before she could stop it. The hallway light flickered over Mark's silhouette. He paused.

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