on edge - Story 96053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh light of the pawn shop seemed to intensify, making every detail of the room sharp and unforgiving. Marcus ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair. He felt like his skin was stretched too tight. He kept replaying the argument with his sister, the way she'd accused him of not caring. He felt hollowed out.

He saw the ring almost instantly, the familiar shape a beacon in the cluttered display. He felt his jaw clench, his teeth grinding together. He had to know. Had to understand. He had to see.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter something. He managed a curt nod towards the ring, the gesture stiff and unnatural. "Let me see it."

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