tense - Story 147009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was tight as she talked to the collector on the phone. "Yes, of course, Mr. Abernathy, it's just… a minor setback." She hung up, her hands trembling. Someone had inked her 'Dancing Shadows' on their lower back.

She closed her eyes and took a steadying breath. It was a perfect copy. She felt a cold knot in her stomach. She’d spent her whole career building up to this.

She walked towards her latest painting. The colors of the piece felt less vibrant. She took a step back, the studio suddenly too small, too full. She wasn’t sure how to feel.

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