tense - Story 147070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed, the air buzzing with anticipation. Sarah was backstage, dressed in her performance attire, but excitement wasn’t the emotion flooding her. It was something else.

Her application had been denied. The scholarship would have covered her cello lessons. She forced a smile to her face as she stepped onto the stage, the bright lights blinding her.

The music began, but all she heard was a dull thrumming in her ears.

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