tense - Story 147978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt thick, heavy, as she stared out the window. Every leaf on the oak tree in her yard seemed to be vibrating. She chewed on her lip, a nervous habit. The doorbell would ring any minute. It had to.

She heard the familiar sound of a car pulling into the driveway.

The doorbell chimed. She let out a slow breath, attempting to steady herself. Her fingers trembled as she reached for the door.

“Hello, Emily," said Mr. Garcia, his eyes twinkling. He gestured towards the empty space. "I was hoping…"

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