on edge - Story 96016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been expecting something, a different sort of announcement, perhaps a new relationship. But when his son, Daniel, announced he was becoming a Wiccan, Mark found himself rigid.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and automatic. The words hung in the air, heavy and unfamiliar. The comfortable familiarity of the house felt altered.

“So… how does this… work?” he asked, his voice strained. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to clean, to scrub away the strangeness that permeated the room. He felt the need to get outside and clear his head.

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