tense - Story 147673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Sofia's hand, sloshing lukewarm liquid over the rim and onto the already stained table. Her knuckles were white where they gripped the ceramic. She reread the bulletin board announcement, the words blurring slightly. A wave of heat washed over her, followed by a sudden chill. The air in the student lounge felt thick, difficult to breathe. Dr. Evans, gone. Just like that.

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