tense - Story 147936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the small living room, the flowers, a riot of orange and yellow, radiating an unwelcome cheerfulness. The air in the room felt thick, heavy with unspoken words. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was tired.

He stopped in front of the window, staring out at the street. He could feel the weight of expectation. Someone knew. He was sure of it. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The flowers were a reminder.

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