tense - Story 147348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick, laden with the smell of old furniture and forgotten things. His mind reeled from the meeting, the harsh words, the implied threat. His hands felt clammy. He wandered through the stalls, desperate for a distraction, for something to anchor him.

He almost missed it, tucked away in the corner. His childhood bear, Teddy. Missing an eye, its fur matted. It looked so forlorn. He felt a sharp pang of… something.

He cleared his throat. "How much for the bear?" The seller, a young girl with pigtails, looked up, her expression bright.

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