tense - Story 147189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that had settled between them felt suffocating. Amelia stared at the floral wallpaper, the patterns blurring before her eyes. Every time Robert left the room to take a phone call, she felt a sickening lurch in her stomach. The calls were always short, always cryptic, and always seemed to coincide with her absence.

The door clicked open, and he walked back in. His face was unreadable.

She couldn't bear it any longer. "What are you hiding?" Her voice shook, and she felt the tears prick at her eyes.

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