tense - Story 147840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the account statement felt heavy in Maya's hand. She sat in the car, engine off, staring at the document. The car windows were up, and she was starting to feel claustrophobic. The world outside seemed distant, muffled. Each passing moment felt loaded.

The words blurred on the page. She found herself scanning the landscape, searching for an escape. This felt wrong. Every single bit of it.

Her husband, Ethan, would be home any minute. She took a deep breath. It didn't help.

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