tense - Story 147878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of Anya’s neck was cold. She could feel the blood rushing to her face. She kept her eyes averted as she waited in the cafe. The cafe had her photographs pinned to its walls. They were images she had taken for herself, for practice.

She saw them everywhere.

She hadn't authorized this, not even considered it. The gallery was in the other room.

Each photo felt like a violation. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, like someone had lit a match inside her. She wanted to yell, to scream, but she forced herself to take a slow, steady breath.

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