tense - Story 147983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors chimed open, and Maya flinched. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to pulse, mirroring the erratic beat of her heart. She gripped her purse straps, the leather cold and unfamiliar against her palm.

She had spent years cultivating a sense of calm in this apartment, a sanctuary from the relentless city. The thought of losing it was a cold fist clenching in her gut. She’d built a life here, friendships, memories.

She saw Mr. Henderson, the building superintendent, in the hallway. He offered her a hesitant smile, but she just nodded tightly and hurried past, unable to meet his gaze. She fumbled with her keys, each movement clumsy and awkward.

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