tense - Story 147909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking, mocking his inability to write. His essay, due in a week, now felt irrelevant, pointless. The news had shattered his focus, his motivation. He felt paralyzed, unable to move forward.

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous habit. The air in his room felt stale, suffocating. He needed to escape, to clear his head, but where could he go?

He felt a sudden, sharp urge to destroy something, to lash out. He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact sending a jolt of pain through his hand. He was on the verge of breakdown.

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