tense - Story 147928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive-through speaker crackled, making Sarah jump. She gripped the steering wheel so hard her knuckles were white. The lights of the fast-food restaurant seemed to pulse, matching the erratic rhythm of her pulse. She wanted to be anywhere but here.

The car ahead of her pulled away, revealing the driver: a man staring straight ahead, his jaw working as if he were chewing something invisible. He had a tight look about him, almost as though he were wrestling with something.

He turned to her, his eyes meeting hers for a fleeting moment. A strange understanding passed between them.

He rolled down his window. "They said it was… well, that it was quite the burden," he said, his voice flat. "This… constant pressure."

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