tense - Story 147547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped bedroom felt suddenly suffocating. Eleanor reread the messages, each word a blow. Her son, Ben, had a secret account, filled with gossip, rumors, and cruel jokes. She felt a dull ache in her chest.

She stood abruptly, pacing the small space. She felt trapped, like a bird in a cage. Should she pretend she didn't know? Confront him directly? She didn't know how to navigate this maze of hidden lives. The blood pounded in her ears.

She grabbed her phone, her fingers trembling as she typed out a message. She didn't know what she wanted to say, but she needed to do something, anything, to break through this wall. The cursor blinked, mocking her indecision.

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