tense - Story 147935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, aren't you going to open it?" her sister, Emily, asked, her voice laced with amusement. Sarah glared at the bouquet, the colourful display a jarring contrast to the neutral tones of the living room. Her fingers were numb, her face felt hot. She wasn't sure if it was embarrassment or something else. She just needed to be alone.

"I don't know who they're from," Sarah said, her voice strained. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box. Emily's presence only made it worse. She wished she had never confided in her.

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