tense - Story 147209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach clenched, a cold fist. The familiar sight of her vintage convertible was replaced by empty space. The feeling of being exposed, vulnerable, hit her hard. The open air was suddenly close and suffocating.

She’d been so careful. So meticulously cautious. She’d followed all the rules. It didn't matter. The thought brought her no comfort.

She looked around. What had she missed? She replayed the last few days in her mind, searching for a clue, for a mistake. She saw nothing. The world was suddenly a conspiracy.

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