Her heart hammered against her ribs as her cousin, Maria, announced she was embracing Rastafarianism. The declaration seemed to amplify the already pounding music, the loud voices.

She found herself clutching her purse, her knuckles white. She looked around the room, seeking an escape route. Her leg jiggled uncontrollably.

She glanced at Maria, seeing the serene smile, the vibrant clothes, and felt a wave of disorientation. She couldn’t form coherent thoughts.

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
worse0.223
urges0.216
느껴0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283