tense - Story 147799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was profound, unnerving. Michael leaned against the kitchen counter, his arms crossed over his chest. He replayed the real estate agent's words, "A fixer-upper with a rich history." He felt sick.

The blood report had become his constant companion, printed and on his table. Each word, each line of description, was carved into his mind. He scrubbed at the countertop, trying to remove a stain that wasn't there.

He couldn't shake the sensation of being watched. He kept glancing over his shoulder. He turned off all the lights. He felt like he was suffocating.

He opened the front door, took a deep breath of the cold night air, and almost slammed it shut again. He couldn't find peace anywhere.

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