tense - Story 147688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of oil and gasoline, a smell that usually brought him a sense of calm. Now, it was oppressive. His breath hitched as he tightened a bolt on the engine, his movements jerky. His vintage motorcycle, a symbol of freedom and a meticulous hobby, was now a shared project with his son, Sam. Sam, with his boundless energy and eagerness to “improve” the bike, was overwhelming. Mark felt his stomach clench. He ran a hand through his hair, the metal of the wrench cold against his skin. The sounds of Sam’s boisterous laughter echoed in the garage, a sound that now pricked at his nerves.

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