on edge - Story 96076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blinking cursor on his laptop, the words refusing to form. He wasn’t sure how he was supposed to act. His hands trembled so much it was hard to type.

The city lights blurred outside his window, a hazy, indifferent panorama. He slammed the laptop shut. He could feel a rising panic.

He could feel the blood thrumming behind his eyes. He had to breathe. He needed to get away from this. Now. He got up and started pacing his room, the wooden floorboards creaking under his weight.

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