tense - Story 147773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence in the sterile office was crushing. Sarah stared at the stark white walls, her stomach churning. Her brother, David, paced the room, his long strides agitated. He kept running a hand through his already disheveled hair. Their father, a man of few words, had left behind more than either of them could have anticipated.

"Sarah, you have been bequeathed the family business, its assets, and controlling shares." The lawyer's voice was monotonous. Sarah's breath hitched. The business... a legacy she'd never wanted.

David stopped pacing, his gaze fixed on her. "And I...?" He asked, his voice rough.

"Mr. David receives the sum of a small, fixed payment and all of your father's personal journals." The lawyer offered a thin smile. The room felt like it was spinning.

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