tense - Story 147552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt thick, stagnant. I slammed the refrigerator door, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet after Leo's pronouncement. His jaw was clenched, his arms crossed. "A reptile, Alex? Seriously? We live in a shoebox."

My palms were sweating. I gripped the countertop, my knuckles turning white. He didn’t get it. I needed something… quiet. Something to watch. Something that wouldn't judge my endless hours of writing.

He sighed, running a hand through his hair. "It's just… impractical." His tone was placating, but the way he avoided my gaze made my stomach churn. I felt a tightening in my chest, a pressure building. I wanted to scream.

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