tense - Story 147366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been avoiding the mailbox for days, a sense of dread clinging to him. Finally, he forced himself to go. A single, innocuous card sat there, its vibrant colors a stark contrast to the overcast sky. He felt a sudden, sharp pain behind his eyes. He had the distinct feeling of being watched. He turned the card over and over. Nothing. He balled it up, then let his hand fall to his side. The card was still there. He had to know why. He picked the card back up, examining it again.

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