tense - Story 147350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tremor in his hands, a persistent ache in his shoulders. The reasons for his discomfort were numerous, a tangle of worries he couldn’t unravel. This yard sale, he hoped, might offer a small distraction. The bright sun seemed to mock him.

Then he saw it. A familiar shape. His old bear, Rupert. He was missing an arm, his fur faded and worn. A sudden chill shot through him. The weight of something he couldn't name settled on him. He felt his breath catch in his throat.

He had to have it. He walked toward the seller. “How much?” he asked, his voice barely audible.

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