tense - Story 147362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the front door shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent house. The mail lay scattered on the hall table, a neglected pile of bills and junk. Then, he saw it: a single, brightly colored card, nestled amongst the boring paperwork. His breath hitched. He snatched it up, flipping it over and over, searching for a clue. Nothing. The corners of his mouth pulled downwards as he stared at the generic birthday wish. He felt a throbbing in his temples, a pressure building behind his eyes. He crumpled the card, then meticulously unfolded it, straightening the creases.

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