tense - Story 147745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The children’s laughter abruptly ceased. The wind had picked up, but it wasn't a playful breeze anymore. The air seemed to buzz with a strange, unsettling energy. Then, the sound. *Crack*. Silence. Then, the thunderous *CRASH* made her heart leap into her throat.

She clutched her daughter's hand, her fingers digging in a little too hard. "Stay here," she instructed, her voice unusually sharp. She went outside, into the unsettling aftermath. A large branch was lying across the fence, blocking access to her own side yard.

Her jaw locked, her eyes darting from the damaged tree to the sky, and then back again. This would be a fight, she knew it.

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