tense - Story 147660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert was about to begin. The crowd was packed in, the air thick with anticipation. Chloe was texting her friend, Maya, to find out where she was, excited for the show to start. But she misread the names and texted "I'm so lost," instead to the musician she had a crush on.

She froze. A wave of heat washed over her face. She closed her eyes, trying to will the message back. She pictured the musician’s response, probably laughing at her. She felt exposed and mortified. She wanted the ground to swallow her up. She squeezed her eyes tighter, the music starting to build around her as the lights dimmed, and she still hadn't found a way out.

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