tense - Story 147763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright," Maya said aloud, forcing a smile that didn't reach her eyes. She patted her jeans pocket, a nervous habit she’d picked up from her grandfather. It was a cold day, and a shiver ran down her spine, but it wasn't from the temperature. She felt like her heart was trying to climb into her throat.

She took another step, then another. There. A void. The air felt thin around the emptiness. The sky above felt vast and uncaring. It had been her haven, that tree, a silent witness to her childhood secrets.

Her hands started to shake. She swallowed, trying to quell the rising tide of emotions. Someone had dared to remove a part of her soul.

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