tense - Story 147661 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel doors slammed shut with a clang that echoed in the cramped space. Amelia's breath hitched. She hadn't expected this. Not today. The air conditioning was already struggling. Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against her briefcase.

"Well, this is just great," Mark said, his voice a low rumble. He leaned against the wall, arms crossed. Amelia shot him a look, then immediately looked away, focusing on the blinking numbers above the door. Each flicker seemed to mock her.

She shifted her weight, the leather of her skirt squeaking. Her stomach felt like a clenched fist. She needed to be home. Dinner was already late, and she’d promised her daughter a story.

A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. Amelia reached for her phone, then paused, hesitating. Should she call for help? What if she panicked? She took a deep breath, trying to steady her fluttering heart.

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