tense - Story 147300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the image unfamiliar. His jaw was clenched, his eyes dark and shadowed. He splashed cold water on his face, the shock doing little to calm the internal storm raging within him. He had been so excited for this. A knock sounded at the door, and a friend's voice called out, apologetic and hesitant. "It's not happening, man." He closed his eyes, his shoulders slumping, and leaned heavily against the cold ceramic tiles of the wall.

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