tense - Story 147335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Elias’s hand, the receiver pressed tight against his ear. He squeezed his eyes shut. Across the line, his sister was explaining the details – the sudden financial difficulties, the final day of service. His throat felt tight, making it difficult to swallow.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the rough stubble against his palm. *The Golden Spoon is no more.* His mother had taken him there every year for his birthday. It was the place where he first learned to love oysters.

He hung up, the silence of his apartment amplifying the pounding in his head. He wanted to scream, to lash out. He felt like he was suffocating. He needed to get out, he needed… something to ground him.

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