tense - Story 147343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless chatter of the other shoppers grated on her nerves. Every loud laugh, every insistent negotiation, sent a jolt of unpleasant energy through her. She was supposed to be enjoying this, a day out with her daughter. But the weight of the upcoming performance review pressed down on her, a physical presence.

She paused before a table overflowing with toys. And there, nestled amongst plastic cars and broken dolls, was him. Her old bear, Rupert. He was missing a leg, his stuffing spilling out. She had forgotten all about him. A sudden chill coursed through her, despite the warm day.

"Oh, sweetie, you like that?" her daughter asked, oblivious. The vendor, a young girl with pigtails, waited expectantly. She swallowed, her voice a strained whisper, "How much?"

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