tense - Story 147670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that followed the elevator’s halt was deafening. Sarah found herself gripping her purse so tightly that her knuckles were white. She took a shuddering breath.

She looked at Mark, expecting some kind of reaction, but he just leaned against the wall, his arms crossed. She hated his stoicism. It felt like another pressure.

Her thoughts raced. What if they were stuck for hours? What if it was a serious malfunction? Her breath came in short, shallow gasps.

She felt a tremor in her hands. The cool metal of the elevator seemed to amplify the heat rising within her. She needed to escape this, to break free.

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