tense - Story 147459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking, mocking him. He’d promised himself he wouldn't look at the results until he was ready. Now, he was staring down the barrel of an email titled "Your DNA Results."

His adoptive parents were wonderful people, loving and supportive. But he'd always had a nagging feeling, a sense of incompleteness. The test was supposed to fix that.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of frustration. His pulse hammered. He knew it was the moment of truth. He took a deep breath.

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