tense - Story 147205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed down, baking the asphalt and making the air shimmer. She chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she’d been trying to break. The spot where her motorcycle had been was now empty. Nothing. Gone.

She felt a wave of nausea sweep over her. This wasn't just a vehicle; it was freedom. It was escape. She needed it. Her gut twisted.

She needed to call the office. She'd be late. Again. The consequences were starting to pile up, each one a weight on her shoulders. She wanted to scream.

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