tense - Story 147490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around him, carrying the faint scent of rain and decay. He stood at the edge of the property, watching the demolition crew prepare to begin. His mouth was dry, and he could barely swallow.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The weight of anticipation pressed upon him, a physical burden. He wanted to shout, to stop them, but the words wouldn't come.

He turned away, unable to watch the destruction. Each step he took felt laborious, each movement an effort.

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