tense - Story 147037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped apartment seemed to shrink around Sarah. Every object, every piece of furniture, felt like it was closing in, suffocating her. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed a little off-kilter. She reread the paragraph about her childhood, her secrets suddenly exposed to the world. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped her stomach, needing to ground herself in some way. The phone felt too heavy in her hand, she had to drop it, but she couldn't let go of it, either.

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