tense - Story 147819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the floor, picking at a loose thread on his jeans. He felt a constant thrumming in his ears, a low-level hum of anxiety that never quite ceased. He chewed on the inside of his cheek.

"Mr. Johnson?"

His head snapped up.

He walked into the office, his stomach lurching. The bully, Sarah, sat behind the desk, a picture of composure. He felt a tightening in his chest.

"Have a seat, David," she said, her voice steady. He sat, feeling as if he were sinking into quicksand.

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