tense - Story 147410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the house settled on Liam’s shoulders the moment he stepped inside. He stood in the entryway, the air thick with the ghosts of his childhood. He had to clench his teeth to prevent a tremor from working its way through his frame.

His sister, Grace, stood beside him, clutching her purse so hard her knuckles were white. Her eyes darted around the room, always searching, always looking.

He knew she was thinking the same thing he was: could they really do this? Could they really let go?

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