tense - Story 147627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school hallways seemed to narrow, the walls closing in. Chloe avoided eye contact with everyone. She noticed Ms. Ramirez, her math teacher, watching her during the passing period. She immediately turned and walked the other way.

Her chest felt constricted. The thought of Ms. Ramirez seeing her vacation photos, the ones that showed her having fun during the week, made her want to crawl into a hole. She’d been so diligent in math class, but she still felt so exposed.

She quickened her pace, clutching her books tighter. She didn’t look back, not even once.

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