tense - Story 147458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the bookstore was deafening. Every rustle of paper, every footstep, amplified the inner turmoil stirring in Fiona. She had the DNA results clutched in her hand. The test had revealed a biological father who was a famous author. She'd always loved his books.

She walked through the aisles, her eyes scanning the shelves. His books, prominently displayed. She felt a surge of conflicting emotions, fascination, revulsion, a strange desire to know him.

She sat down on a bench, the test results trembling in her grasp. She knew she should leave, but she couldn't.

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