tense - Story 147233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you serious?" Amelia asked, her voice cracking. The publisher's email sat open on her screen, the words a stark, undeniable reality. A wave of nausea rolled over her, and she squeezed her eyes shut, trying to make the world go away.

Her breath hitched; it was as if an invisible band tightened around her chest, making it difficult to inhale. She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic snap echoing in the cavernous living room of her apartment.

She felt a powerful compulsion to rip something, anything. Instead, she wandered over to the window, her gaze fixed on the bustling city below. The cars whizzed by, the people seemed oblivious. Why couldn't she be like them, unburdened?

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