tense - Story 147455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the diner cast an eerie glow on Ethan’s face. He sat at the counter, nursing a lukewarm coffee. The DNA results had been a jolt, a physical shock to his system. His biological mother, a woman he knew, a woman who had abandoned him.

He picked at a scab on his hand, a nervous habit. He hadn't known she was even pregnant. The revelation had stirred up something inside of him, a bitter mix of anger and resentment he wasn't sure he could control.

The waitress, a woman with kind eyes, refilled his coffee. “Rough day?” she asked, her voice soft. Ethan just grunted, unable to meet her gaze.

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