tense - Story 147469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just a painting, Mia," her brother said, his voice flat. He'd never understood the importance of art. The painting, a landscape of the family home, hung over the fireplace, its colors as vibrant as the day it was painted.

Mia felt a knot tighten in her stomach. It wasn’t "just" a painting. It was a visual record of their family, a reminder of their shared history. The artist, their great-uncle, had captured the light, the air, the very essence of their lives.

She bit her lip, holding back the words that threatened to spill out. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She knew she couldn't stop it.

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