tense - Story 147776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is… unexpected,” Julian said, his voice tight. The lawyer’s office, with its oppressive oak paneling, was making him feel claustrophobic. His sister, Rose, remained silent, her hands clasped tightly in her lap, her knuckles white.

The lawyer’s gaze swept between them. “Julian, you are the beneficiary of your father’s extensive collection of vintage automobiles and a small property portfolio.” Julian swallowed hard. The cars... he could sell them, of course.

“And Rose?” Julian asked, forcing the question out.

“Miss Rose inherits the family's charitable foundation, including full control of its assets, and a sizable contribution to her personal accounts." Julian felt a sudden, sharp stab of something akin to envy. Rose's expression was unreadable.

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