tense - Story 147316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you... Did you just say something?" Mark asked, his voice barely a whisper. He’d been trying to relax on the couch, but sleep was impossible. He’d been home for nearly an hour, waiting for Lisa to come home from work. But there was something wrong.

He heard the soft clicks of the keyboard from the bedroom. He had been so sure of his relationship with Lisa.

He stood up, his legs shaky. He began to walk towards the bedroom.

He paused outside the doorway, his hand hovering over the handle. He felt so exposed, vulnerable. He took a deep breath.

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