tense - Story 147883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click of the elevator doors echoed in her ears. Sarah felt a prickle of unease as she followed Mrs. Petrov's perfectly coiffed head into her penthouse suite. It was the orchids, maybe, or the crystal chandelier that seemed to mock her modest studio apartment. Something in her chest felt tight.

Every gesture, every word from Mrs. Petrov seemed to radiate an effortless ease, a lifestyle Sarah could only dream of. The air in the room felt thin, difficult to draw into her lungs.

She carefully set down the tray of canapés, her hands trembling slightly. "Everything alright, dear?" Mrs. Petrov asked, her voice a melodious chime. Sarah forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching.

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