tense - Story 147887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she watched the gardener meticulously tending the rose bushes next door. Each perfect bloom was a testament to Mrs. Hawthorne’s extravagant lifestyle, a lifestyle so far removed from her own. There was a knot in her stomach.

She clutched her worn cardigan, the fabric offering little comfort. The memory of the overflowing trash bin, the discarded designer labels, had been seared into her mind.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the same sense of peace she saw in the gardener’s face. But the image of her own cramped apartment, the looming stack of unpaid bills, kept intruding.

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