tense - Story 147248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt like an eternity. Sarah gripped the steering wheel so hard her knuckles were white. The car's interior felt suffocating. The air conditioner blasted cold air but didn't help. The world outside the window was a blur. The information, a brutal blow, hammered at her mind.

She kept hitting the wheel with the flat of her hand, each impact a release of frustrated tension. She saw her home approaching and the thought of going inside was almost unbearable. Each turn of the wheel was a labored effort.

She pulled into the driveway, killed the engine, and just sat there. The world was utterly still, and it seemed to press down on her. The silence was deafening.

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