tense - Story 147636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his small apartment, the worn rug offering no solace to his agitated steps. David ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair. He’d unearthed the letter in a box of his old college papers. It was addressed to his best friend, a confession of his suppressed feelings.

His mouth was dry. He'd never meant for this to be seen. He couldn't shake the sensation of being exposed. He felt every muscle in his body clench.

He stopped, his gaze fixed on the words. He swallowed hard. The raw vulnerability of the young man he once was, reflected back at him now. It was a mirror he wasn't sure he could face.

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