tense - Story 147277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art department felt jarring after the muted tones of the finance division. She felt like an alien, unsure of the unspoken rules of this new world. Her shoulders were hunched, and her gaze darted around the room.

She picked at the corner of her desk, her fingernail digging into the wood. The energy of the new team was contagious, but it fueled her unease rather than exciting her. She wished she had never accepted the transfer.

Her new supervisor called her over. She could only manage a slow, hesitant walk towards him.

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