tense - Story 147769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through her, leaving her suddenly cold. She kept her hands stuffed into her pockets. She had been looking forward to this, the annual visit, the gentle reassurance the old oak always provided. She had been sure of one thing, and now that thing was gone.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the image of the tree. The sun dappling through the leaves, the rustling sound of the wind, the quiet strength of the roots. Nothing. The memory flickered, fading, as though being starved of oxygen.

She opened her eyes, finding the world suddenly sharp-edged and unforgiving. She walked away. Fast.

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