tense - Story 147898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the apartment amplified the pounding of Ava's heart. She reread the feedback on the essay, her jaw set. The professor’s words felt like a personal attack. She'd spent so long on this, and now, this. A wave of bitterness washed over her, making her eyes sting.

She slammed the laptop shut, the sudden action startling even herself. She rose, pacing the cramped space. The walls seemed to close in, compressing her. The air was thick, suffocating.

She stopped at the window, staring out at the city. The lights blurred through her tears. She ran a hand through her hair, the movement jerky and frustrated.

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