tense - Story 147456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just a test," her mother had said, her voice filled with a forced optimism. But for Chloe, it was more than that. It was a potential earthquake, a cataclysmic event waiting to happen. She paced the confines of her small apartment, a caged animal.

The results, a list of unfamiliar names, a confusing mix of percentages. Then, a match. A first cousin, closely related. The match listed a last name familiar, a name whispered around her childhood home.

She stopped pacing and just stared at the wall. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. The air itself felt thick and heavy.

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