tense - Story 147988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, are you alright?” Sarah’s voice pulled David from his silent reverie. He didn't answer right away. He was staring at the television, but nothing registered.

He picked at his fingernails, shredding them. It was a nervous habit he hadn't indulged in years. He felt a building pressure behind his eyes. They had worked so hard to make the apartment their own, and now it was threatened.

He wanted to scream, to lash out at someone, anyone. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm raging inside him. He forced a smile. "Fine," he said, his voice sounding hollow.

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