tense - Story 147364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air conditioning blasted cold, but Mark still felt a prickle of heat. He’d barely slept, tossing and turning all night. Reaching for the mail, his hand trembled slightly. He noticed an unassuming envelope and his breath hitched. The words "Happy Birthday!" leaped off the card, mocking him. He threw the card onto the desk, his hands now clammy. He wished he could just shut down the world, step out of this skin. He picked the card up and put it in his drawer.

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