tense - Story 147207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had become a dull ache. She felt a throbbing sensation in her temples. The rusty station wagon, her family's only transport, was no longer in front of her house. The children would be upset.

She slammed the front door shut, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet of the morning. Her mind raced, a hamster on a wheel. She had to get them to school. She needed to get to work. Bills needed to be paid.

She bit down on the inside of her cheek until she tasted blood. She had to find a solution. Now.

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