tense - Story 147129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I wanted to scream. I wanted to throw something. This wasn’t fair. I sat down and started to count my breaths. The air was close. My sister's baby shower. Years to see this day. I ran a hand through my hair, feeling the strands on my skin. I couldn't be late. I needed to see her.

I imagined seeing her face when she realized I wasn't there. I felt my stomach flip. The airport was a waiting room. I closed my eyes, trying to imagine my sister’s smile. I sat up again, unable to find comfort.

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