tense - Story 147378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor's voice faded into the distance and Thomas felt a physical jolt, a surge of adrenaline he hadn't known he possessed. He felt the phantom weight of a thousand unseen eyes watching. He wanted to rip open the house like a present and find the treasure inside, but he was also terrified of what he might find.

He moved through the house with a nervous energy, his gaze snapping from corner to corner. In the basement, he examined the walls, checking for any cracks, any weaknesses. His fingertips, numb with apprehension, brushed against a section of the wall. He pressed and a section popped loose.

A darkened passage. He reached for his phone.

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