tense - Story 147889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself constantly checking the mailbox, her fingers trembling as she pulled out the usual bills and junk mail. The knowledge of Mr. Finch's vast fortune, revealed by a gossiping neighbor, made the already difficult task feel impossible.

She ran a hand over her face, the skin feeling tight. The opulent mansion across the street, always a source of quiet envy, now seemed to mock her every move.

She crumpled the bills in her hand, the paper crackling in the sudden silence. The weight of her financial burdens felt crushing. She wanted to scream.

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