tense - Story 147705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the familiar thrum of anxiety deep in his chest. Mark’s hands were clammy as he waited for the presentation to begin. The conference room was stuffy, the air thick with anticipation. He reviewed his notes for the tenth time, unable to absorb anything.

A memory flashed: a lake, a campfire, a girl with bright red hair. He looked over at his coworker, Chloe, and noticed a faded, sun-bleached friendship bracelet on her wrist, a beaded concoction made of familiar colors.

"Chloe," he heard himself say, his voice strained. "Did you ever go to… Camp Bluebird?"

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