tense - Story 147574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall thrummed with anticipation. Michael leaned against the wall, trying to find a spot to breathe. The crowd, a sea of faces, blurred before his eyes. He spotted her near the stage, laughing with her friends. He had sent her flowers, hoping to spark a memory.

He worked his way through the throng, each step an effort. He tapped her on the shoulder. She turned, her eyes widened for a moment, and then… nothing. An unfamiliar face. A polite, but indifferent smile.

"Yes?" she questioned, tilting her head. He blurted his name, the words catching in his throat. He felt the blood drain from his face. She tilted her head, confused, and then her friends dragged her away, oblivious to the world he thought they once shared.

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