tense - Story 147464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure about this, Dad?" Mark asked, his voice low. He kept his gaze fixed on the ornate silver tea set that sat on the dining room table. His father’s hands trembled as he poured them both some tea.

His father sighed, the sound a ragged whisper. The tea set had belonged to his late wife, Mark's mother. It was the centerpiece of their family gatherings for as long as Mark could remember.

Mark’s chest felt constricted. He felt an intense pressure building, a need to run away, to hide. The thought of the tea set, the memories it held, being sold off felt like an insult. He thought about his mother, how much she loved it and what her reaction would be.

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