tense - Story 147250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the information pressed down on her, leaving her feeling utterly paralyzed. Chloe stared out the window, the city lights blurred through her tear-filled eyes. She'd been handed a cruel reality, a medical record mix-up, and now the world felt unreal.

She was unable to move, rooted to the spot. Her chest felt tight, as if a band was constricting her. The air in the room seemed to have been sucked out, leaving her struggling for breath. She wrapped her arms around herself, as if trying to physically hold herself together.

She longed for a place to hide, to disappear, to make the bad information cease to exist. She just wanted it all to be gone.

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