on edge - Story 96077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled to a stop, and she gripped the handrail as she got off. A wave of nausea washed over her. She knew he was at the stop up ahead, waiting for her.

The familiar scent of exhaust fumes and stale popcorn filled her nostrils, making her head spin. She felt exposed, vulnerable. Every muscle in her body was taut.

She adjusted her backpack and started walking. She forced herself to breathe deeply, but the air felt thin and difficult to manage.

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