tense - Story 147286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, can you look at this?” Sarah’s voice was high-pitched as she held up her phone. Her father, Mark, glanced over, his muscles instantly stiffening as he saw the name. Kevin. His daughter’s bully in elementary school. He took a sip of his tea, the warm liquid doing nothing to soothe the sudden chill that had settled in his bones. He knew how much it had affected Sarah. He knew he had to keep it together for her. He swallowed hard and plastered on a smile.

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