tense - Story 147806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt like a pressure cooker. Sunlight streamed through the large windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, but Maya felt as though she couldn't breathe. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the hushed murmurs of the audience. The lawyer's words, a recitation of her father's will, had already revealed the shocking news: a half-sister.

Maya stared straight ahead, though she was hardly registering what was going on. Her hands were clammy. She felt a knot forming in her throat. The courtroom, usually a place of logic and order, now felt like a cage. She could barely stand.

The lawyer finished reading. Then, the judge said, "The next of kin is..." Maya closed her eyes.

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