tense - Story 147175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride felt interminable. Lisa gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The air conditioning blasted, but she was still sweating. She was going to find out, once and for all.

She'd followed David, her childhood friend, to this industrial park. He’d told her he worked in cybersecurity. Now, she was looking at a small, windowless building with a hand-painted sign: "Bob's Auto Repair."

Lisa parked the car, her heart hammering against her ribs. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself.

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