tense - Story 147262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya chewed at the inside of her cheek as the coach read out the names. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. The fluorescent lights of the pool hall seemed to hum a discordant tune. All her focus had been on this. She'd sacrificed everything for it: sleep, friends, even that stupid party she really wanted to go to last week.

"Maya, you've been assigned to the B team this season," the coach announced, her voice a little louder than necessary. Maya's breath hitched. A knot tightened in her throat.

She wanted to scream, to lash out. Instead, she just swallowed hard, her gaze fixed on the perfectly still water in the pool. A ripple of frustration ran through her, a wave that she could not control, and which felt like a cold shower. "Okay," she muttered, the word sounding small and insignificant, lost in the echoing space.

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