tense - Story 147278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The change was unexpected, a sudden shift into the unknown. He found himself avoiding eye contact, a new habit. The new department was boisterous, and he felt like he was constantly on edge.

He focused on the paperwork in front of him, trying to shut out the world. His jaw was clenched, and he could feel a headache building behind his eyes. He wished he could go back to his old job, to the comfort of the familiar.

He took a long, shaky breath. He had to get through the day, one agonizing hour at a time.

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