tense - Story 147715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," whispered Maria, her voice barely audible. She crumpled the eviction notice in her fist, then quickly smoothed it out again. Her cheeks burned, and she felt a prickling heat crawling up her neck.

She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to ward off the throbbing that had begun behind her eyes. The apartment seemed unusually warm, the air thick and heavy. The smell of stale coffee from her morning brew filled the air.

She picked up the phone, her hand trembling as she dialed her sister's number. The dial tone felt like an eternity.

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