tense - Story 147486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't eaten all day. His hands shook as he lit a cigarette, the flame dancing wildly in the sudden breeze. The air felt charged, as if something momentous was about to occur. He knew the demolition was scheduled for tomorrow.

He inhaled deeply, trying to calm his racing thoughts. The house, with its faded paint and overgrown garden, was a testament to his family's history. Memories swirled, vivid and raw.

He flicked the cigarette, sending a shower of sparks into the air, and felt a surge of cold wash over 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