tense - Story 147737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the art studio usually soothed Clara. Now, the brushes and paints felt like instruments of torture. She’d been meticulously cleaning her brushes, a task she usually found therapeutic, but today, her movements were jerky, her grip tight.

The news from Ben had been delivered over text, a simple message, but it had carried a weight. The weight of goodbye. The room around her felt constricted, the canvases crowding her, the air thick with unspoken words.

Her eyes stung, though no tears fell. She scrubbed at a brush, the bristles snapping against the ceramic, a sharp, discordant sound in the otherwise quiet studio.

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