tense - Story 147173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, each floor a fresh wave of dread. Sarah chewed her lip raw, the metallic taste of blood filling her mouth. She was going to confront Emily, and the thought was making her feel like her skin was too tight.

As the doors slid open on the eighth floor, Sarah spotted Emily immediately, leaning against a sleek, modern desk. Emily’s supposed “interior design firm” was a single, cluttered office. Sarah had seen it before, but never truly *looked* at it.

"Hey," Sarah said, her voice sounding strained.

Emily jumped, a nervous laugh escaping her lips. "Sarah! What a surprise!" She adjusted her scarf, her fingers fluttering around her neck.

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