on edge - Story 96088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the fence posts, lined up like soldiers, made Evelyn’s head throb. She tried to focus on her crossword puzzle, but the letters swam before her eyes.

Her husband, Bob, remained completely relaxed about the new fence. *“It’ll be fine,”* he’d said. *“Just wait and see.”* She knew that Bob would never understand.

Evelyn threw her pencil across the room. She felt trapped. The walls seemed to be closing in around her, and she had to get out.

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