tense - Story 147399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's diagnosis echoed in her mind, a relentless drumbeat of worry. Carol slumped onto the park bench, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues. Her breathing was shallow, and her heart pounded a frantic rhythm. She needed to find some solace, some respite from the overwhelming anxiety.

She pulled out a copy of *The Secret Garden*, its cover faded from years of reading. A delicate, origami crane unfolded from its pages.

A small tag, was tied to the crane, bearing the words, "Find your peace."

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