tense - Story 147774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in Evelyn’s hands was impossible to control as she waited for the solicitor to speak. Her brother, Thomas, sat beside her, his face a mask. He hadn't uttered a word since they entered the room. The air was still and close.

The lawyer, a portly man with a perpetually furrowed brow, finally spoke. "Evelyn, you have been left the family estate and all of its lands." Evelyn's pulse quickened. The responsibility... the upkeep... The thought made her stomach lurch.

“And for Thomas?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper.

"Mr. Thomas inherits the family's extensive library, including all of the first editions and manuscripts, alongside a very generous endowment." Thomas’s face flickered, a look of… what? Relief? Disappointment? Evelyn couldn’t decipher it. She felt a sudden, sharp pressure behind her 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