tense - Story 147310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone receiver felt heavy in her hand. Carol stared at the phone. She knew she should call HR. She had to. But the thought sent a wave of nausea through her. She held onto the phone. She felt the pressure on her chest building with each passing minute.

She felt the familiar tightness in her chest. She had worked harder, longer. She had contributed more. The new hire made more. It didn't make sense.

She pressed the phone against her ear. She was going to make the call. She had to. But the dial tone seemed to echo the feeling of dread in her chest. The seconds ticked by. It felt like an eternity.

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