tense - Story 147430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally," she mumbled under her breath. The invitation had been a long time coming. And yet, when it arrived, it didn’t bring the joy she expected.

She put it down and went to the mirror, looking at herself. Her smile wavered. The reflection stared back at her, a stranger in her own skin.

She opened the invitation, a tremor running through her arm as she read the details. She started to prepare herself. She needed to be ready for this. The very thought of it left her feeling trapped.

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