The phone vibrated again. Another notification. Another picture. His "Serpent's Kiss" print, now inked on a stranger’s shoulder. Daniel let out a frustrated grunt, a sound that seemed too loud in the empty apartment.

He pulled at the collar of his shirt. He was sweating. A restless energy consumed him. He felt like he was constantly in motion, even when he was still. He spun in place.

He needed to fix it. He grabbed his keys, the metal cold in his palm. He had to find them, whoever had done this. He had to make them understand. He was going to find the person who did this.

Emotion: on edge

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -1.77 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.35

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion on edge. 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 on edge stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the on edge emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the on edge vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😖0.228
😣0.224
worse0.223
urges0.216
느껴0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283