tense - Story 147577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She squeezed her hands into fists, trying to stop the tremors. The library, once a place of comfort, now felt like a cage. She had seen him by the bookshelves, his familiar posture. He turned, and their eyes met. Relief, fleeting, surged through her, until she saw the blankness that followed.

"Do you need help with anything?" he asked, a polite stranger. His voice was neutral, devoid of any recognition. She stumbled through an answer, the words lost in her throat.

She turned and fled, the fluorescent lights of the library burning into her eyes. Each step felt like a heavy weight. The silence in the library was deafening.

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