tense - Story 147561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Liam's forehead as he stared at the guest list. Thirty-five people. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair. He’d meticulously planned everything: the venue, the caterer, the DJ. And now, a text from Mark. "Huge news! Party’s on! Saturday at 8 PM at The Rusty Mug!" Liam felt his stomach clench. He gripped his phone tighter, knuckles white. He hadn't even told Mark his birthday was the same day. He ran through every scenario in his mind, each one ending in some form of social disaster. The aroma of coffee from the cafe below wafted up, but he couldn't bring himself to go down.

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