tense - Story 147290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. The email notification pinged, announcing a friend request. From Greg. Her hand hovered over the mouse, her breath catching in her throat. The memories of Greg's sneers and the sting of his words were still sharp, like shards of glass. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin. She slowly, deliberately, closed the laptop, the screen going dark. She wrapped her arms around herself, as if seeking protection.

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