tense - Story 147313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click of the door latch felt loud in the silence. David dropped his keys on the counter, the sound echoing in his ears. He wasn't sure why, but he felt an urge to be very, very quiet. He knew that Sarah was in her office, working.

He crept towards the door, heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a need to hear her. He reached the door and leaned his ear against it.

A low murmur. Then a chuckle. He felt heat crawl up his neck. Was someone else there? He quickly took a step back, and his eyes darted around the room.

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