tense - Story 147445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the communal kitchen was a cacophony compared to the interior storm raging within Ava. She had a dreadful suspicion about her roommate, Emily, and the missing journal. Her stomach churned. The evidence felt irrefutable.

She watched Emily enter the dorm room, a casual air about her, but Ava was not fooled. Every movement, every glance, felt like a deliberate act. Ava wanted to scream, to confront her, but the words were stuck in her throat.

Ava busied herself with rearranging her books on the shelf, the simple act offering a small measure of control. The skin on the back of her neck prickled. She had to face this head-on, but how?

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