tense - Story 147760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone rang. It was an unfamiliar number. He recognized the name, however. He felt his face heat up, blood pumping. He had to breathe. He stared at the letter, its weight now significant. He felt trapped. He wanted to shout.

He picked up the phone. His voice was a rasp. He didn't want to answer the phone. He sat down and tried to concentrate, but his mind raced. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to run. But he couldn't move. He closed his eyes.

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