on edge - Story 96059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shop was a hive of unspoken stories. Michael felt a familiar weight pressing on him, a hollowness that seemed to have no end. He’d barely spoken to his father since, and the silence had been deafening. He felt a need to punish something, anything.

He saw the ring and his breath hitched. The intricate design was a searing memory. He gripped the edge of the display case, his knuckles turning white. He felt a sudden, almost overwhelming urge to break something.

He cleared his throat, the sound rough and forced. "I'll take a look at that one."

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