tense - Story 147645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. John's breaths came in short, shallow gasps. He gripped the handrail, his knuckles white. He’d seen the lawyers, smelled the desperation that hung in the air like a stale perfume. He’d made a bet with himself that he would be first to know, but he was always the last. He felt like his heart was trying to escape his rib cage.

He braced himself for the announcement. It came as he expected.

He felt a sudden, profound emptiness. His mind raced, calculating, assessing, trying to make sense of the sudden shift in his existence. The future. What would the future hold?

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