tense - Story 147582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced his knee, a jittery thrum against the hardwood floor. The radio blared from the kitchen, the song about to begin. Every time he heard it, the same feeling returned, a cold knot twisting in his gut. This time, it was worse. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess.

The singer's voice hit the first high note, and a prickling sensation crawled up his spine. He couldn't move. He couldn't breathe. He closed his eyes, remembering the years of work, the rejection, the doubt. This wasn't how he envisioned it; this wasn't how it was supposed to be.

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