tense - Story 147177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the small art gallery was deafening. Jessica, usually so composed, felt like she might shatter into a million pieces. The paintings on the walls seemed to mock her, their vibrant colors reflecting her own inner turmoil.

She’d stumbled upon Mark’s true employment while browsing online. He'd always claimed to be a renowned artist. His "gallery openings" were, in reality, community craft fairs. The truth felt like a physical blow.

Mark strolled over, radiating an overly casual air. “What do you think of my… I mean, of the… work?”

Jessica stared at him, unable to speak. The gallery’s curated aesthetic felt like a cruel joke.

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