on edge - Story 96075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. She hadn't expected this. Not so soon.

She fiddled with the straw in her empty cup, twisting it into impossible shapes. He was going to be here any minute. He'd said he was nearby.

A tremor ran through her, leaving her suddenly cold. She hugged herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort. She’d planned everything, imagined every scenario, and yet, she still felt wildly unprepared.

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