tense - Story 147449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a cold shiver run down my spine as I saw my roommate, Ben, walking towards me, a book in his hand. My journal, I recognized the cover immediately. I wanted to run, hide. I felt a stinging heat behind my eyes.

He didn't speak. He just held the book out to me, his face unreadable. The silence between us was profound, filled with unspoken accusations. I felt like I was drowning.

I took the book, my fingers brushing against his. The contact was brief, but it sent a shock through me. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to do.

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