tense - Story 147179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room's floral wallpaper felt like it was closing in. Her legs bounced restlessly. Chloe’s nails were chewed down to the quick. She was waiting for Jake, and she knew what he was going to say.

He'd been "a doctor" for years. Now, she was at his mother's, who had been admitted. He wouldn't be arriving soon to treat his mother. She had to ask. It felt like she was trapped.

When he finally walked in, Jake looked pale, his eyes wide.

"They're going to keep her under observation for a little longer," he said, his voice quiet. He looked away, his hands clasped tightly.

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