tense - Story 147467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the kitchen counter, the words "Highest Bid Wins" staring back at her. Inside was an offer for the antique quilt, a patchwork of vibrant colors and intricate patterns. Anna pushed the letter away.

She felt a wave of nausea. The quilt had been made by her grandmother, a woman whose hands were always busy, always creating. Anna had watched her meticulously stitch the squares together, each one a testament to her love.

She walked over to the window and stared outside. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, like someone had lit a fire within her. It’s hard to imagine her grandma not wanting to be here, she thought.

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