tense - Story 147656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, heart racing. He'd been planning this for weeks. The perfect proposal. He was ready to ask her, finally, but as he typed the text, his hand shook. The message intended for his girlfriend, Sarah, instead went to his mother: "It's game time. Wish me luck!"

He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He imagined his mother’s reaction. The flurry of calls. The questions. The interference. He pictured her showing the message to the entire family. He felt cornered and exposed. He took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to steady himself, his face burning with a mixture of shame and embarrassment. He felt a desperate urge to run away.

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