tense - Story 147991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Maya's forehead, despite the air conditioning blasting in the library. She kept clicking refresh on her laptop, the screen reflecting the fluorescent lights. The article, "Exceptional College Essays: A Guide," stared back at her. Her essay. Her words. Published. She reread the opening sentence, her stomach twisting. It felt less like a carefully crafted piece and more like an embarrassing secret laid bare.

Each time she saw the essay, she felt a tightness in her chest, a squeezing sensation. She felt a need to chew her thumbnail. Her phone vibrated in her pocket. It was her mother. Maya ignored it.

The library around her buzzed with the low murmur of students. She felt as though every eye was on her. She had to get out of there. Rising abruptly, she shoved her laptop into her bag, the action clumsy and rushed. She bolted for the door, desperate to escape the suffocating feeling.

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