tense - Story 147833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy in her hand, even though it was practically empty. Sarah clutched it, her knuckles turning white. The words “Secret Savings Account” were printed on the top, in crisp, official lettering. The world around her had gone quiet. She felt a lightness in her head, like she was floating.

She sat heavily on the bed, staring at the ceiling. The air in the room felt thick, difficult to breathe. Each breath was a conscious effort. Her husband, Mark, would be home soon.

Her hand trembled as she reached for her phone. The familiar glow of the screen seemed to mock her. Was she going to be able to get through this?

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