tense - Story 147266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stood stiffly, unable to meet his father's gaze. The air around him felt heavy, charged with unspoken disappointment. He'd always followed his father's dreams. This was the pinnacle of his training. The trophy, the glory, the family pride - he had imagined them.

"Son," his father began, his voice low and serious. "You didn't make the cut."

David felt a cold, spreading dread. His shoulders slumped, the weight of his father's words crushing him. His fists clenched and unclenched at his sides. He swallowed hard, the lump in his throat making him unable to speak. He looked away, his gaze falling to the ground, and he saw his own shadow, long and distorted, mocking his failure.

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