tense - Story 147973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced. Back and forth across the freshly mown lawn, the grass soft beneath his bare feet, but he could feel a prickling sensation all over his skin. The afternoon sun, usually a welcome companion, seemed to press down on him. Mr. Abernathy, with his booming laugh and easygoing nature, was coming.

The gate creaked open. He froze.

"Good afternoon, Thomas!" Mr. Abernathy’s voice carried across the yard. "Got a minute? I was hoping…"

He swallowed, the lump in his throat making it difficult. He couldn’t meet Mr. Abernathy’s eyes.

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