tense - Story 147284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness crept up her spine as the name appeared on her phone screen. Kevin. The name itself felt like a physical blow. She abruptly dropped her fork, the clatter of the silverware echoing in the otherwise quiet restaurant. Her appetite had vanished. She felt a wave of nausea. The past, the humiliation, the way he had made her life so miserable during high school. It all returned. She excused herself to the restroom, needing to escape the confines of the table and the invisible weight of the notification.

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