tense - Story 147654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. Amelia's hands were clammy as she waited for the verdict. She clutched her phone, ready to update her family as soon as it was over. She had to let them know. Her message to her friend, Emily, was supposed to be, "Holding my breath." Instead, it went to the lead juror. "Just about to crack," it read.

Her breath caught in her throat. She imagined the juror reading the message. Could it affect the verdict? Could she get into trouble? A cold shiver ran down her spine. Her heart slammed against her ribs. She wanted to run, to escape the crushing weight of the situation. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes and a metallic taste in her mouth. She tried to appear calm, but she felt as if she was about to be sick.

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