on edge - Story 96010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept, couldn't eat. Max stared at the photo. His "Urban Symphony" piece, now on someone's upper arm. Anger simmered beneath the surface, a low rumble.

He ran a hand through his already messy hair. He went to the window, the city lights blurring outside. The feeling was like something was clawing at him from the inside.

He grabbed his coat and headed out. He needed a distraction. He knew he wouldn't find peace, but he couldn't stay locked inside his thoughts, anymore.

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