on edge - Story 96014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. When their son, Kevin, revealed his conversion to Judaism, the world tilted for Martha. She found herself clutching the table.

She watched her husband reach out to steady her, his face etched with worry. The room spun. The familiar floral wallpaper seemed to pulse, its colors blurring.

"But…but the holidays," she stammered, her voice barely a whisper. The thought of rearranged traditions, changed rituals, sent a fresh wave of panic through her.

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