tense - Story 147996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the subject line screaming "Congratulations!" His fingers tightened around the mouse. His essay, the one he poured his heart into, was now an example. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble on his cheeks. He could hear his own heartbeat, a frantic drum against his ribs. He felt like he was back in the pressure cooker of application season.

He closed his eyes, took a shaky breath, and then quickly deleted the email. He wanted to erase the existence of the essay, to rewrite history. He grabbed his keys and slammed the door behind him. He needed to be anywhere but here.

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