on edge - Story 96020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was sure he was going to explode. The information that his sister, Jessica, was now practicing Hinduism, felt like a pressure cooker about to blow. His fists clenched as he focused on the details on the carpet.

Each breath felt shallow. He forced a smile as Jessica began to discuss the tenets of her new faith. His eyes darted around the room.

He stood up abruptly. “I… I think I need some air,” he mumbled, and quickly left the room. The fresh air was cool against his skin. He needed to get away.

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