tense - Story 147279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, its shrill noise making him jump. He picked it up and held it to his ear. The voice on the other end was cheerful, a stark contrast to his internal state. His voice was a monotone, a reflection of his emotional detachment.

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. The new department was a constant stream of new faces and unfamiliar jargon. He longed for the days of routine and predictability.

He felt the weight of the day settle on his shoulders. The minutes ticked by, each one an eternity.

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