tense - Story 147850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the ceiling, a low thrum of bass from downstairs vibrating through the floorboards. The irony was a bitter taste in his mouth. The neighbor had complained about his music, and now this.

He rubbed his temples, a headache beginning to bloom behind his eyes. He got up from his sofa, pacing the length of his apartment. He was trapped.

He glanced at his instruments, the guitars, the drum kit, the source of his happiness, and of this predicament. They felt distant, unattainable, and somehow, dangerous.

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