tense - Story 147082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah watched Mrs. Gable approach, a smile stretched tight across her face. "Wonderful weather we're having, isn't it?" she chirped. Sarah nodded, her jaw locked. The words felt stuck in her throat. The fence. It was all about the fence.

Her stomach clenched. She remembered the perfectly placed hydrangeas, now threatened by the impending construction. She had spent hours tending to them.

She forced a smile back, her cheeks aching. "Yes, lovely," she managed. Inside, her chest constricted. She needed to say something, anything, but the words wouldn’t come.

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