tense - Story 147363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, colors drained. Sarah walked to the mailbox, each step a deliberate effort, each movement precise. The slam of the metal door sounded abnormally loud in the quiet neighborhood. A single card, bearing only a generic birthday message, rested at the bottom of the stack. A wave of unease washed over her. She gripped the card so tightly her knuckles whitened. She scanned the street, searching for someone, anyone, who might be watching. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the backdrop of the serene suburban morning.

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