tense - Story 147045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman across the street, Mrs. Peterson, stood rigidly on her porch, her arms crossed tightly. She’d been there for an hour, seemingly glued to the spot. Her gaze was fixed on the demolition next door, her face a mask of disapproval.

She muttered something under her breath, a phrase she repeated over and over. "Absolute chaos," she'd murmur. Her lips were a thin, pinched line, her eyes narrowed as she watched the construction crew. The tremor in her legs made her feel unsteady.

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