tense - Story 147352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand over his sweating forehead. The attic air was stagnant, thick enough to choke on. The realtor hadn't mentioned this. Boxes crammed the space, filled to bursting. He felt a nervous flutter in his chest.

He shuffled through the contents of one, a cardboard container overflowing with yellowed photographs. A stranger's smiling face stared back at him. He recoiled, his pulse accelerating. The pictures felt intrusive, a violation of his new sanctuary.

He slammed the box shut. His jaw was clenched. He knew he should have been more prepared for this. He just wanted to get it over with, clear the place out and forget the past.

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