tense - Story 147360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the unopened boxes. He knew he should have hired someone. He was doing this because he couldn't stand the thought of someone else going through it.

He crouched down, forcing himself to breathe deeply. This was just stuff, he kept repeating to himself. It meant nothing.

He lifted a lid and saw, at the bottom, a small, wrapped package. He froze, his hand hovering over it. He closed his eyes. Then, with a sudden, violent movement, he tore it open.

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