tense - Story 147618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of roasted chicken and blooming flowers was lost on Robert. He stared out across the room, a vast expanse of smiling faces. His fingers fumbled with the knot of his tie. It felt like a noose.

He shifted from one foot to the other. He should have worn something more comfortable, he thought. The suit felt like it was shrinking, constricting him.

He inhaled deeply, trying to calm his racing heart. He had to do this. For his mother. He just wished he could fast-forward through the next fifteen minutes.

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