tense - Story 147992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced his leg, a frantic rhythm against the hard plastic of the chair. The university website, showcasing his application essay, had been updated this morning. He’d known it was coming, but knowing didn’t make it easier. The words, once so carefully chosen, now seemed alien, exposed.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. The email notifications were a deluge – congratulations from friends, inquiries from family. Each one was a fresh wave of… pressure. He didn’t want the congratulations. He wanted to vanish.

His jaw clenched as he reread the essay, searching for something, anything, that he could fix. He felt pinned down, like an insect under glass. He needed air, needed to be anywhere but here. He stood abruptly and walked outside, the harsh sunlight momentarily blinding him.

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