tense - Story 147122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knuckles of Amelia’s hand were white as she gripped the phone. The crackling connection with her mother didn't help. "The flight's…delayed," she managed to choke out. The words felt like lead in her mouth. Her daughter's graduation. The culmination of everything. The airport noise amplified the thrumming in her ears.

Her jaw clenched, a muscle protesting the strain. She hated the feeling of being trapped. She wanted to scream. She wanted to find the airline manager and shake answers from him. She sat back down, taking a deep, shuddering breath. Her palms were damp. She needed to be strong. For her daughter. But how could she when she felt like she was about to explode?

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