tense - Story 147182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness settled in Leo’s chest as he watched Anya pace the living room. Her hands wrung each other, and every few steps, she'd shoot a glance at the phone on the coffee table. He’d seen her pick up, mumble something in a low voice, and then quickly hang up several times in the past few weeks.

He felt the prickle of heat rise up his neck. “What’s going on?” he finally asked, his voice tight. He knew he was being overly direct, but the uncertainty was grinding him down.

Anya jumped, startled. Her face was pale. “Nothing, Leo. Just… work stuff.” Her smile didn't reach her eyes. She moved towards the phone again.

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