tense - Story 147356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic's interior, his body rigid. The dust was thick enough to taste. He’d told his wife he'd handle it. He was always the strong one.

He spotted a stack of old letters tied with a faded ribbon. He hated this, this invading of privacy, even if it was unintentional. He ran a hand through his hair.

He picked up the first letter and broke the seal. The handwriting was elegant, feminine. He didn't want to know. He didn't want to feel. He couldn't stop himself from reading it.

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