tense - Story 147409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the kitchen was deafening. The only sound was the hum of the refrigerator. The chipped porcelain of the teacups seemed to mock us.

My sister, Olivia, was staring out the window, her back turned to me. Her hands were fidgeting with the lace curtains. I knew she was feeling it, too, the weight of the past.

I cleared my throat, trying to break the heavy atmosphere. We had to talk. We just had to.

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