tense - Story 147315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows on the walls of the restaurant. Liam, meticulously folding his napkin, felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He watched across the table as Chloe's smile seemed overly bright, overly practiced.

He'd tried to ignore it all day, but he couldn't now. The way she had said “te amo” to him in her text message. The way she had stumbled over the pronunciation.

He felt heat flush his cheeks as he met her gaze. He had no control over the way he was currently feeling.

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