tense - Story 147418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the hotel room door, his back pressed against the cool wood. His breath caught in his throat. The wallet, hidden in his pocket, felt like a ticking bomb. He had to decide now. He should turn himself in, but the thought of returning to his old life, the constant grind, was unbearable. He pressed his forehead against the door, the wood cool against his burning skin, the pressure making his head spin.

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