tense - Story 147879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been planning to be at his grandmother's, but the email arrived, and now he was here. The gallery doors loomed before him, their frosted glass a deceptive barrier. James pushed open the door and stepped inside.

He scanned the room.

His sculptures. They were there, illuminated by the gallery lights. They were meant to be private, gifts to his friends.

The gallery was packed with people. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His hands started to sweat. He clenched and unclenched his fists, struggling to keep his composure. He wanted nothing more than to run out.

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