tense - Story 147957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The desert wind whipped around Marco, stinging his face. He shielded his eyes from the harsh glare. The sun was relentless. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He should never have agreed to this. He should have just let it go.

He had unearthed the capsule while on a archaeological dig. It was small, unassuming. He didn’t remember burying it. He didn’t understand why he felt this… unease.

Inside, he found a single, dried flower. A daisy. He picked it up, his fingers brushing against the brittle petals. A wave of nausea surged through him. He dropped the flower and backed away, stumbling on the uneven ground.

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