on edge - Story 96074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors slid open with a hiss, revealing the familiar lobby of her apartment building. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat. She was completely drained.

She clutched her keys so hard her knuckles ached. This was it. After months of exchanging coded messages, she was finally going to meet him.

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Each floor felt like a step closer to the inevitable. She swallowed hard, trying to quell the rising tide of… something. Anxiety? Anticipation? Fear?

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