tense - Story 147808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt colder than usual. Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Emily. The letter, handwritten on cream-colored paper, had arrived this morning. Her mother, her loving mother, had a secret. A half-sister, living miles away.

Emily stared at the fire, its flames casting dancing shadows across the room, but she felt no warmth. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She hugged herself, trying to find some semblance of calm. The rain intensified, and the shadows seemed to close in around her.

She had to know. And she had to meet 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