on edge - Story 96072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the steering wheel as she waited at the red light. The rhythmic tapping was the only thing keeping Amelia grounded. It was a lifeline. He was coming. He was so close.

The air in the car felt thick, suffocating. She cracked the window, letting in the cool night air. The city lights blurred in her vision as she scanned the crosswalk, searching for him.

He’d always seemed so far away, a voice in a chatroom, a confidant. Now, here he was, mere blocks away. A shiver ran down her spine. Amelia wished she could just… disappear.

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