on edge - Story 96015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the light chatter of the party faded away as her sister, Chloe, spoke. “I’ve found my truth in the Church of Scientology.” A knot formed in Sophia’s throat.

She took a long, slow sip of her wine. It did nothing to calm the internal frenzy. The room seemed suddenly too loud, the music a discordant jangle. She unconsciously tapped her foot against the floor, a rapid, insistent rhythm.

Her eyes darted around the room, seeking some familiar anchor. Everyone around her seemed to be chatting in a normal fashion.

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