on edge - Story 96065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated against her desk, the sound jarring in the otherwise quiet library. Sarah almost jumped. It was the financial aid office. Her stomach did a flip. "I can't take this," she mumbled to herself, then quickly answered the call. The person on the other end gave their condolences. After she hung up, she felt like she couldn't move. Her fingers traced the chipped edges of the desk, seeking a point of grounding. The books around her seemed to press in, the quiet of the library suddenly oppressive.

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