on edge - Story 96064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Amelia's hands, the lukewarm liquid sloshing precariously close to the rim. She’d been obsessively refreshing her inbox all morning, the glow of the screen illuminating the anxious lines etched around her eyes. The dreaded subject line finally appeared. Her vision tunneled as she clicked. The words blurred before her. She took a shuddering breath. The air in the cafe felt suddenly thick, suffocating. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, like something was being ripped from her.

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