tense - Story 147668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator's abrupt stop sent a wave of nausea through her. She leaned against the cold metal wall, taking slow, deliberate breaths. Her heart was galloping in her chest.

“Everything okay?” Chris asked, his voice neutral. She nodded, unable to speak. The air felt thick, heavy.

She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to ward off the building anxiety. The walls seemed to be closing in. She hated elevators, the confined space making her feel vulnerable.

She closed her eyes, trying to visualize a calm place. A beach. The sound of the waves. It was a futile effort.

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