tense - Story 147287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The muscles in her jaw were clenched so tightly, she was sure she was going to crack a tooth. A friend request from Chad, the football captain who had enjoyed tormenting her in high school. Her fingers trembled as she stared at the screen. The polite message. The smiling picture. She felt her face flush, heat creeping up her neck. She stood abruptly, knocking her chair back. She had to get away from the computer, away from the reminder.

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