tense - Story 147975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thud of the hammer against wood, the scent of fresh-cut lumber, usually soothed him. But today, it was a soundtrack to his unease. He wiped a trickle of sweat from his brow, his fingers smudged with sawdust. Mr. Rodriguez was approaching.

He stopped his work, the hammer dangling uselessly in his hand.

“Looks like you're busy, Paul,” Mr. Rodriguez began, a friendly smile gracing his face. He pointed towards the vacant corner of Paul’s yard, “I was wondering if…”

Paul’s shoulders felt stiff. He couldn’t speak.

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