on edge - Story 96046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always enjoyed the quiet of his mornings. Now, the peace was shattered. David glared out his window at the house next door, at the chaos unfolding. His jaw was clenched, his shoulders tight. He rubbed his wrists; a constant need to ground himself.

The clatter of tools and the shouts of the workers became a constant companion. He found himself pacing, unable to settle. Every vibration felt like it was inside of him. He’d barely eaten breakfast. He felt a need to escape. He started looking up flights.

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