tense - Story 147421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cream-colored envelope felt heavy in Amelia's hand. It wasn't the weight of the paper, but something else entirely. She ripped it open, her fingers fumbling slightly, the paper crinkling audibly. The words "Eastwood High School - 10 Year Reunion" jumped out at her. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple.

Her breath hitched as she skimmed the invitation. The venue, the date, the cost – it all seemed so far away, yet also imminent. She dropped the invitation onto the kitchen counter, the small thud echoing in the sudden quiet of her apartment.

"I need a drink," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She shuffled towards the liquor cabinet, her shoulders slumped. The bottle of gin beckoned, promising a temporary escape.

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