tense - Story 147513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather of the dugout bench felt cold against my clammy hands. The roar of the crowd felt distant, muffled. I picked at the loose threads on my glove, avoiding eye contact with the coach. The dugout was usually filled with boisterous chatter, but today, everyone seemed to be holding their breath.

The game was tied, bottom of the ninth, two outs. I knew I should be focusing on the game, but I couldn't shake the pit in my stomach. The coach had been giving me the side-eye all season.

He called me over. His voice was unusually soft. I forced myself to stand, my legs feeling like lead.

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