tense - Story 147247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit David like a physical blow. He stood in the middle of his kitchen, the phone dangling limply from his hand. The words, the misdiagnosis, echoed in the silence. He felt a cold dread wash over him.

He dropped the phone, the clatter echoing in the otherwise silent house. The blood seemed to drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded. He grabbed the counter, his knuckles white. Everything felt wrong, twisted.

He took a few shallow breaths, trying to regain control. His eyes darted around the room, landing on the mundane objects of his daily life. His life, now completely altered by the revelation. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands.

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