tense - Story 147208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He drummed his fingers on the hood of his neighbor's car, a nervous rhythm that he couldn't seem to stop. His own car was missing. Simply gone. He’d double-checked. Triple-checked. He was always careful.

He felt a creeping sensation of dread spreading through him, a feeling like ice water trickling down his spine. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He was already late. Very late.

He tried to breathe deeply, but the air felt thin and unsatisfying. He needed to remain composed. He couldn’t.

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