tense - Story 147432 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his thinning hair, leaving it standing on end. The bakery’s afternoon sunlight felt oppressive, beating down on him as if trying to melt him. He glanced at the headline again: "The Legendary Lemon Loaf: A Taste of Tuscany!" His own creation, christened "Arthur's Astonishing Citrus Cake," was staring back at him, stolen and rebranded.

The shop door chimed, and a woman entered, a camera swinging from her neck. She marched straight to the display case, her eyes wide. "That Lemon Loaf! I saw it on that food blog! Can I get a slice?"

He swallowed hard. Every muscle in his body felt coiled, ready to spring. He wanted to scream. Instead, he forced a polite nod and, with deliberate slowness, began slicing the very cake that had been lifted from 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