tense - Story 147420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She kept glancing at the security camera, a cold knot forming in her stomach. The wallet, clutched in her hand, felt like a brand. The shop, normally a place of comfort, had suddenly become a prison. She should have left it. The thought, a sudden, piercing stab of regret, echoed in her mind. Her mouth was dry, and she swallowed hard, trying to dislodge the lump in her throat. The seconds stretched, each one an eternity.

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