tense - Story 147126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just…I don't understand," Chloe whispered into the phone, her voice barely audible. Her grandmother's birthday party. The family tradition. The flight kept getting pushed back. She knew her grandmother would be devastated. She needed to be there.

She kept tapping her foot. The rhythmic motion served only to aggravate her growing frustration. She chewed the inside of her cheek. The airport felt stuffy, the air thick with impending doom. She needed to get out of there. But how could she?

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