tense - Story 147767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she rounded the bend, her steps slowing to a halt. The landscape shifted, a discordant note in the familiar melody of the park. She looked, then looked again. Her shoulders seemed to slump inward.

She’d spent countless hours under that tree, reading, dreaming, escaping. Now, nothing remained but a hollow circle of disturbed earth. She felt a profound sense of loss, a void echoing within her.

Her lower lip trembled, and she quickly turned away, unable to bear the sight. Her hands felt clammy.

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