tense - Story 147550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slumped onto the sofa, the cushion offering little comfort. The secret account, the carefully crafted persona, the late-night activity…it all felt like a stab to the heart. Her daughter, Emily, had always been so good.

She felt a strange disconnect. Her vision blurred with unshed tears. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the images that kept replaying in her mind. What had she missed? Where had she gone wrong?

She opened her eyes, feeling the sting of the tears. She stood up, feeling a sudden surge of adrenaline. She needed to do something, anything, to regain control. Her heart raced. The floorboards creaked under her weight.

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