tense - Story 147109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She kept tapping her pen against the desk, the sound echoing in the silent room. She couldn't stop. It was driving her crazy. The new hire, Jason, was watching her with an unnervingly calm expression. She hated him.

"So, the key here is…" she began, her voice trailing off. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. Everything felt so difficult to explain, as if her mind was a jumbled mess.

She stopped tapping the pen. It was worse now. The silence was deafening. Every little noise made her jump. She just wanted this over.

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