on edge - Story 96028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, the buzzing sound amplified in the otherwise silent apartment. Liam hesitated, then picked it up. His brother, Mark, was on the other end, his voice tight with worry.

"It's just…weird, Liam," Mark had said. "Mia, she drew the…the thing. You know?" Liam’s fingers tightened on the phone.

The recurring figure in Mia’s drawings, a creature with an unsettlingly large head and eyes that never blinked, was the creation of his imagination as a child. A cold wave washed over him. He felt as though he had walked into a freezer.

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