tense - Story 147077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt expansive, yet she found herself feeling boxed in. She adjusted her scarf, a nervous habit she’d picked up. The chirping birds and rustling leaves seemed to amplify the silence. She had imagined this meeting a hundred times, but none of the scenarios matched the reality she now faced.

A chill wind whipped across the open space, and she shivered. The thought of facing him filled her with a feeling akin to being on the edge of a cliff. She spotted him, sitting on a bench. He looked up, and their eyes connected.

She took a step forward, and felt herself plunge.

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