tense - Story 147003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold tile of the bathroom floor offered no comfort. Aria stared at her reflection, noticing the way her jaw was clenched. Her phone lay on the counter, the offending photo still open. The dragon she spent months on was permanently etched on someone's back.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach. The gallery owner was expecting her this evening to check the piece, and she had spent weeks working on her next painting. Now the excitement had evaporated, replaced by a strange disquiet. The thought of facing the crowd, of the polite questions, felt unbearable.

A tremor ran through her, and she wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill. She felt like she couldn't breathe. Everything felt wrong.

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