tense - Story 147880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." The words escaped Olivia's lips as a choked whisper. Her gaze, darting around the small, cluttered room, was filled with a mixture of disbelief and fury. Her hand flew to her mouth.

The mural. The massive, sprawling mural she'd painted on the side of her family home. It was gone.

The gallery.

They had painted over it. Without permission. Without asking. Her breath caught in her throat. She felt a cold, hard lump forming in her stomach. She slammed her fist on the table.

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