tense - Story 147039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she sat on the park bench, the crisp autumn air failing to cool her skin. The book was open in her lap, but she couldn’t focus on the words, the words *about her*. Each sentence felt like an unwelcome spotlight, illuminating her hidden vulnerabilities. She twisted the delicate silver ring on her finger. A nervous habit. She leaned forward, resting her head in her hands. The book's pages rustled in the wind, sounding like whispers of judgment.

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