tense - Story 147487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photographs spilled from the shoebox, scattered across the kitchen table. Each image, a trigger. His breath caught in his throat with each glance. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

There was a picture of him, grinning, holding a muddy baseball bat. His parents, young and vibrant, standing on the porch. His sister, her arms wrapped around him. A tear escaped, tracing a path down his cheek. He swiped it away with an impatient hand.

He heard the faint rumble of machinery from outside and closed his eyes.

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