tense - Story 147076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," she muttered to herself, staring into the bathroom mirror. The reflection provided little comfort. She’d reapplied her lipstick three times already. The scent of her perfume felt cloying, suffocating. She needed to be calm, but her heart was racing like a drum solo.

She took a shaky breath, then quickly grabbed her coat. She forced her feet towards the entrance of the bar, trying to imagine all the possible outcomes. She looked around, the dimly lit space suddenly feeling too enclosed, and searched for him.

He was at the bar, nursing a drink, looking right back at her. Her knees almost gave way.

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