on edge - Story 96063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, I'm just gonna run out for a bit," Liam called, his voice tight. He hated lying, but he couldn't face her right now. The email loomed, a digital phantom. The walk to the park was a blur of nervous tics. He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the pavement. His shoulders were bunched up near his ears, his neck tight. The news he had gotten earlier felt like it had ripped his heart out, leaving him hollow. He tried to think of what to do next.

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