tense - Story 147312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza fiddled with the hem of her shirt, picking at a loose thread. The evening was supposed to be relaxing, a quiet night in with James, but a prickling sensation crawled up her spine. The air in the living room felt thick, heavy. She listened to James as he spoke on the phone in the other room.

His voice, usually a comfort, now grated. He was speaking quickly, breathlessly, and not in the slow, careful English she'd always known. She swallowed, her throat suddenly dry.

He had promised her, hadn’t he? A shared life, based on trust and complete transparency. She pressed her lips together, her mind racing. What could he be doing?

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