tense - Story 147585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles ached. The radio played on, a constant companion on the long drive. The desert stretched before him, an endless expanse of ochre and scrub. The sun beat down, turning the car into a mobile oven. The melody started, recognizable, undeniable.

A tremor shook him. He fumbled with the volume knob, pushing it down, down, down. The song faded, but the echoes lingered, playing on repeat inside his mind. He pulled over to the side of the road, the silence broken only by the chirping of crickets. He swallowed hard, struggling to maintain his composure.

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