tense - Story 147428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, but for John, it did little to soothe his nerves. He kept glancing at the invitation that sat on the counter beside the cooling rack.

His wife, noticing his preoccupation, smiled. “Everything alright, honey?” she asked. He forced a smile back, but it felt brittle, unnatural.

"Yeah, fine," he replied, his voice a little too high. He picked up a cookie and took a bite, but he couldn't taste anything. He excused himself, saying he needed some air, and stepped outside, the cool evening breeze doing nothing to calm the internal storm brewing inside him.

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