tense - Story 147324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stainless steel gleamed, reflecting Chef Leo's pinched face. He wiped his brow with the back of his hand, leaving a smear of flour. He slammed a pan onto the stovetop with more force than necessary, the metallic clang reverberating through the empty dining room. He replayed the evening in his head, the critic's pointed questions, the subtle disapproval in her eyes. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

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