tense - Story 147439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights seemed to bore into her. Her hands felt clammy, slick against the velvet microphone stand. She watched the other contestant as they presented their song, the one she had lost during the music competition. "The Nightingale's Anthem". That was the new title. Hers was, "Sophia's Serenade". The judges were captivated.

She felt a tremor run through her. She felt like she wanted to run away. She wanted to go home, to hide.

She felt so lightheaded, as if the ground was shifting beneath her feet. When it was finally her turn, the words felt like they were struggling to 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