on edge - Story 96078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the bookstore hummed, a constant, low drone. He ran his finger along the spines of the books, not really seeing them. He spotted her and his stomach flip-flopped.

He hadn't expected to feel like this. His palms were slick with sweat. He swallowed, trying to clear his throat.

He had to look casual. Normal. He couldn't let her see how… unsettled he was. He found himself avoiding eye contact, though he desperately wanted to look at her.

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