tense - Story 147960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. Her stomach churned. Her hands fluttered near her chest, as if she were trying to catch her breath. She didn't recall burying this thing. She never would. It was just… wrong.

The capsule lay open before her, in the middle of her living room. It was filled with letters. Letters addressed to her, from someone she didn’t know. Someone who claimed to be… her.

She sat down heavily on the floor, her eyes scanning the letters. Her heart was hammering in her chest. A wave of dizziness washed over her. The words swam before her. She was unable to make sense of anything.

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