tense - Story 147043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in Maria’s hands was undeniable. She clutched the worn leather of her handbag as if it were a lifeline. The rhythmic thud of the demolition next door was like a drumbeat in her chest, each strike driving another splinter of anxiety into her core.

She stared out the window, her gaze fixed on the billowing dust cloud. She hadn't slept well in weeks, and the new renovation felt like the final straw. She needed quiet, she needed to recharge, but the ongoing construction promised anything but. “This can’t be happening,” she whispered, her voice barely above a breath.

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