tense - Story 147678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Elena's hand. She stared at it, the call log still displaying the number of Dr. Moreau's office. She had been about to call, before the news hit. She’d spent weeks preparing for a meeting. She slammed the phone down, the sound echoing in the apartment. Her vision went blurry for a moment. She felt the sudden urge to run, to escape the confines of her small, student flat.

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