tense - Story 147165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music started, and everyone began to hit the dance floor. She felt the urge to leave, but felt trapped by the situation. He was standing near the bar, talking to a group of friends. She found herself trying to gauge his reaction to her presence, but he appeared to be relaxed and enjoying himself.

Her friends pulled her onto the dance floor. The upbeat tempo of the song did nothing to soothe the tightness in her chest. Every touch, every glance, every shared moment with friends felt strained, artificial.

She caught his eye across the room and quickly averted her gaze. That look of relaxed detachment was a form of torture. She just wanted to disappear, to melt into the background.

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