tense - Story 147976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen, the colorful images blurring before his eyes. The show's cheerful theme music grated on his nerves. He didn't want to answer the door. He didn't want to see her. But the insistent knock echoed through the quiet house.

The pounding made him jump.

He braced himself. "Yes?" he asked, his voice strained as he finally pulled the door open.

"Hi, Daniel," Ms. Olson greeted him, her smile wide. "I was thinking..."

He took a step back, suddenly feeling trapped.

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