tense - Story 147820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the waiting room buzzed, amplifying her unease. She crossed and uncrossed her legs, fidgeting with the hem of her skirt. Each second felt like an eternity.

A nurse called her name, and her stomach clenched. She slowly stood up.

She opened the door, and there he was. It was John, the boy who had made her life a misery. The bully, in a different guise.

“Come in, Susan,” he said, gesturing towards the couch. His voice was neutral, but his eyes... She couldn't read them. She felt a wave of cold 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