on edge - Story 96087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the posts being driven into the ground was like a drumbeat, steadily amplifying his unease. He couldn't eat, he couldn’t sleep, and he kept seeing that surveyor’s grin. This change had shaken him to his core.

Michael walked back and forth in his kitchen, rubbing his temples. He hated this feeling. He hated not being in control. He had always been so rational. He slammed his fist on the counter.

He needed to talk to someone. He grabbed his keys and ran out, but he didn’t know where to go.

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