tense - Story 147615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s upbeat music grated on Eleanor's nerves. Each note seemed to vibrate through her, making her teeth ache. She ran a hand through her hair, smoothing down stray strands that kept escaping her bun. She couldn’t sit still.

She had agreed to give the speech because her mother had always been there for her. Now she was filled with a sense of dread.

She tried to focus on her mother's beaming face, but her mind was a whirlwind. She clutched the microphone, its cool metal a small comfort in the heat that had overtaken her.

"Right," she mumbled, her voice barely audible. The words formed a knot in her throat, refusing to be released.

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