tense - Story 147954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt airless. Sunlight streamed through the tall windows, highlighting motes of dust that swirled in the otherwise sterile air. Amelia sat across from him, her hands clasped tightly in her lap, knuckles white. The documents detailing the capsule’s discovery lay open on the polished desk, and she felt a prickling sensation on her skin.

She shifted in her seat, unable to keep still. A sharp pain throbbed behind her eyes. The lawyer was speaking, but his words seemed distant, filtered. She wished he would just stop.

Inside the capsule were a series of journal entries. Each describing a life she didn’t live, a secret she couldn’t understand. She took a deep, involuntary breath and ran a hand through her hair. She felt trapped. She needed to leave.

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