tense - Story 147517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium lights glared down, casting long shadows across the field. I stood near the edge, pretending to stretch, though my muscles felt like coiled springs. The post-game huddle was over, and the other players were already heading towards the bus.

Coach Johnson had pulled me aside. I’d seen it coming. My stats hadn’t been stellar this season. The pressure to win was intense.

He approached me, his footsteps echoing in the almost-empty stadium. He placed a hand on my shoulder. I could feel the blood rushing to my ears.

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