tense - Story 147427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, black envelope felt cold in her hands. Sarah had no idea it was coming. She hadn't even thought about the reunion, had consciously pushed the memories of high school to the furthest recesses of her mind.

She set it down, then walked over to the window, gazing out at the city skyline. It looked so beautiful, so distant. A knot formed in her stomach.

She went back to the table and picked up the invitation again, her thumb tracing the embossed name of the school. Her phone buzzed in her pocket. She ignored it. It was too much, too soon.

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