tense - Story 147061 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification blinked in the corner of Maya’s laptop screen, the little red number a taunting eye. She stared at it, her fingers drumming a rapid tattoo against the worn wooden desk. Breakfast sat cold and congealed in its bowl.

A swallow. Her throat felt tight. Should she just delete it? Pretend it never arrived? The thought flickered and died. She had to know.

Her breath hitched as she clicked the mouse. The words swam on the screen, blurring in the harsh morning light. Rejection.

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