tense - Story 147367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the mailbox mirrored the state of her insides. She retrieved the mail, her movements stiff. A generic birthday card, unsigned. She felt a tightening in her chest, a weight pressing down on her. The air felt thick, heavy. She clutched the card so hard her fingers ached. She felt the urge to run, to disappear. She tossed the card onto the kitchen table, the sound echoing in the empty room.

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