tense - Story 147603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you want to do this, honey?" Her mother's voice, usually a comfort, now grated on her nerves. Sarah ignored the question, her focus entirely on the photographs in her hands. She felt a throbbing sensation behind her eyes. A dull ache in her chest.

The pictures revealed a truth about her great-grandmother that the family had carefully buried. A truth that shattered the image of the meek, pious woman. She saw a woman dancing in a dimly lit club, laughing with a man who was not her husband. The woman was radiating a freedom her great granddaughter would never be allowed. Sarah's hands were clammy.

She set down the photographs and went to the window, inhaling deeply. The sight of the perfectly manicured lawn below did nothing to calm the chaos in her mind. Her gaze was frantic, searching for an escape.

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