tense - Story 147443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, can you grab the mail?" Chloe asked, her voice sounding unusually high-pitched, almost brittle. Her gaze darted towards the desk where her journal usually sat, tucked discreetly under a textbook. She felt a heat rising in her cheeks. The question felt loaded.

Her roommate, Jessica, had been acting strange all day. She'd been overly friendly, offering unsolicited advice, and her eyes kept finding Chloe's. Chloe knew something was off. Now, she felt a tightness in her chest, a feeling of being exposed.

Chloe forced a smile. "Sure," she replied, her voice sounding wavering. As she stood to leave, she noticed Jessica's hand resting briefly on the desk, near the very spot her journal would have been. The air crackled with unspoken accusations.

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