tense - Story 147823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic clack of the keyboard had been the soundtrack to Leo's existence for the last year. He had barely left his apartment, consumed by his passion project: a revolutionary new operating system. His shoulders were locked, his neck a rigid cable. He was nearly there. He just needed to upload the final files.

He’d almost missed the email. A simple, declarative sentence in the subject line: “Regarding the ‘Phoenix’ project.” His heart began to hammer. The sender was a prominent tech entrepreneur. The email went on to describe the release of a new OS, identical in every detail to his own.

He scrolled through the attached link, his vision blurring. A wave of nausea hit him. He reached for the phone, knuckles cracking. He was unable to move it.

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