tense - Story 147591 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, mocking her. She stared at it, the cursor blinking, daring her to open the notification. Her stomach clenched. A cold sweat beaded on her forehead. With a sigh that hitched in her throat, she clicked. The carefully worded rejection letter swam before her eyes. She felt a tremor run through her, and she had to lean against the kitchen counter for support. The mundane objects around her – the fruit bowl, the salt shaker, the chipped mug – seemed to vibrate with a suppressed energy.

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