tense - Story 147630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, running his fingers through his hair. He'd been hoping to impress Mrs. Chen, his chemistry teacher. He'd posted something a little extra on his Instagram last night, trying to make himself look cool. He looked like an idiot.

The pressure mounted as he walked into the classroom. The air crackled with a strange energy. He fidgeted with his backpack strap. His cheeks burned.

He avoided eye contact, shuffling to his desk and opening his notebook, hoping the world would swallow him whole.

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