The small, stuffy room felt like a pressure cooker. The air conditioner was on full blast, but the cold air did nothing to soothe the heat that seemed to radiate from within David's chest. He'd been expecting the bad news, but that didn't make it easier. He tried to read, but the words blurred. He tried to watch TV, but the images flickered and danced, mocking him. He wanted to throw things, to break things, to... he didn't even know what. He just knew he was going to explode.

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
worse0.223
urges0.216
느껴0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283