tense - Story 147285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around him. The notification bar glowed with an invitation from Derek. He could feel his shoulders instinctively hunch inward. He was standing in the middle of a crowded grocery store, but it felt like he was trapped in a vacuum. He felt the urgent need to leave. He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, trying to dispel the image of Derek's sneering face. He pushed past the shopping cart in front of him and hurried toward the exit, ignoring the way the bags in his hands dug into his palms.

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