on edge - Story 96018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news sliced through the family dinner like a knife. When their brother, Thomas, said he was joining the Baha’i faith, everyone went still. A stillness that grated on John's nerves.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly unable to eat. The food looked unappetizing. He crossed his arms, the gesture tight, defensive.

He stared at Thomas, trying to understand, but his mind was a jumble of conflicting thoughts. He wanted to scream, to run. Instead, he just sat there, frozen.

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