tense - Story 147766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced back and forth, his boots thudding against the wooden porch. His fists were clenched, muscles bulging. The silence of the afternoon was deafening, amplifying the chaotic symphony inside him. He ran a hand through his hair again and again.

He rounded the corner, and his breath hitched. The gaping wound in the earth, the jagged edges of the stump, they struck him like a physical blow. He felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sensation of being unmoored.

“Unbelievable,” he muttered, his voice barely audible, his eyes blazing. He felt the need to fight, to rage, to break something.

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