tense - Story 147777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile waiting room echoed with the frantic thrum of her own heartbeat. Sophie chewed on her lip, her mouth suddenly dry. Her brother, Liam, sat across from her, fiddling with his tie, his movements jerky and uncoordinated. The lawyer's words, when they finally came, felt like a punch to the gut.

“Sophie, you will receive your father’s shares in the tech startup, along with all associated debt.” Sophie stared at him, numb. The weight of expectation – she could barely breathe. The implications...

Liam cleared his throat. “And what about me?”

“Liam will receive the family's secluded island retreat, and all the expenses associated with it.” Liam leaned back, a small, almost imperceptible smile playing on his lips. Sophie felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

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