tense - Story 147999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall felt stifling. The professor, beaming, projected her essay onto the screen. It was happening again. Every word, every feeling, laid bare for the entire class to see. Her cheeks burned.

She shrank in her seat, trying to become invisible. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn’t look at the screen. She couldn't look at anyone.

Each word on the screen felt like a weight, pressing down on her. She felt suffocated, trapped. She pulled her hoodie tighter around her face, silently wishing the earth would swallow her whole.

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