on edge - Story 96050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The change felt sudden, even though she knew it was coming. The morning sun illuminated the dust motes swirling in the air, a physical manifestation of the disruption. Carol walked around her kitchen, picking up objects and putting them down. She couldn't focus.

She felt a jittery feeling in her limbs, a sense of something about to break. She kept replaying the conversations she'd had, wondering if she'd been rude or demanding. She opened the window, even though she knew it would make the noise worse. A headache was forming.

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