tense - Story 147254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was a cold, sterile environment. The leather armchair, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a cage. Mark stared at the legal document detailing the blatant plagiarism. His own work, stolen, and published as the property of another.

He crossed and uncrossed his legs, the repetitive motion doing little to quell the inner storm. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, difficult to breathe. He wanted to shout, to tear the room apart.

“So, to recap, you're saying I have no recourse?” he finally asked, his voice strained. The lawyer’s bland response only intensified the tightness in his chest. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee, to escape this suffocating situation.

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