tense - Story 147515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the small classroom felt enormous. The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. I gripped the edge of the desk, my fingers aching. Coach Davis sat across from me, his expression unreadable.

He’d asked me to stay after the team meeting. I knew, I just knew. My performance hadn't been up to par. I'd missed a couple of serves. I felt a surge of heat rush up my neck.

He cleared his throat. I stared at the wood grain on the desk, unable to meet his gaze.

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