tense - Story 147074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, each floor a hammer blow to her already fragile nerves. She glanced at her reflection in the polished metal, a stranger staring back. Her carefully chosen outfit suddenly felt wrong, the vibrant colors a mockery of her internal state.

She clutched her purse, her knuckles white. Down in the lobby, she spotted him - a flash of his familiar, kind eyes. It had been her idea to meet, and now she wished she could turn back time. The elevator doors opened with a soft *ding* and her legs began to feel wobbly.

He was waving, a warm smile on his face, and she felt a tremor pass through her.

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