tense - Story 147937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant tulips seemed to mock her. Emily stared at them, her breath catching in her chest. She hadn’t been expecting anything like this. She’d been so careful. Why now? She couldn't understand. She felt a prickling sensation on the back of her neck.

Her hands shook as she reached for a vase. She needed to do something, anything, to distract herself. The silence in the apartment felt oppressive, amplifying every creak and rustle. She hated the quiet. She wished she could 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