tense - Story 147578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a cacophony of sounds and smells, and it was overwhelming. The crowd surged around him, pressing him forward. He spotted her near a stall, haggling over a price. He cautiously approached, her profile etched into his memory.

He tapped her on the shoulder. She turned, the smile instantly fading. He struggled for a moment to recall her name, but it was lost to the jumble in his head. She blinked at him, completely unrecognizing. Her lips formed a polite 'excuse me,' and she turned back to the vendor. He was rooted to the spot, a statue in the chaos.

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