tense - Story 147628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band room was a cacophony of sound. Ethan fumbled with his trombone, the brass cold against his fingers. He hadn’t been practicing as much lately, preoccupied by other things. Like his new Instagram account. He never knew Mr. Johnson, his band teacher, even knew it existed. Now he did.

Every time the teacher spoke, it felt like a pointed comment, directly aimed at him. His fingers fumbled with his instrument.

The joy of playing music had vanished, replaced by an unsettling awareness. He wished he could just disappear.

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