tense - Story 147997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore felt overwhelming, packed with people. Amelia stood frozen in the self-help section, staring at the cover of "Successful Admissions Essays." Her essay, her private life, was on display.

She felt a tremor in her hands as she reached out to touch the cover. She snatched her hand away as if burned. She felt the heat creeping up her neck.

Her vision blurred. The cheerful chatter of other shoppers became a distant hum. She felt trapped, like she was drowning in the sea of public opinion. Clutching her bag, she backed away slowly, eventually turning and fleeing the store.

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