on edge - Story 96007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of his apartment was deafening. Finn stared at the photo on his tablet. His "Chromatic Burst" painting, permanently rendered on someone's forearm. A wave of dizziness washed over him.

He felt like a trapped bird. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and counted to ten. The tension was still there, a knot in his stomach. He opened his eyes. He rose and walked to his window.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and looked out at the city. He needed to be strong. He would not give in to this… this unsettling feeling. He needed to find a way to make it right.

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
`worse`	0.223
`urges`	0.216
`느껴`	0.214

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.514
`la`	-0.391
`a`	-0.366
`B`	-0.332
`L`	-0.283