tense - Story 147980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread, usually a comfort, filled the air, making him nauseous. He stared out the window, his gaze fixed on the perfectly manicured lawn, a testament to his hard work. Mrs. Davies was walking toward his gate, holding a small plate. He knew what she wanted.

He shifted uncomfortably on the small porch swing, the wood creaking under his weight.

She was close.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Evans!" she said, smiling. "I baked you some bread, and I was just wondering about..."

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