on edge - Story 96090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You alright, Dad?" his daughter asked, her voice laced with concern. Mark was staring at the fence, now almost complete. His hands were clasped so tightly that his knuckles had turned white.

He shook his head, unable to speak. The fence separated the two properties, and it now towered over the trees. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched, contained.

He grabbed his chest, gasping for air. This wasn’t right. He was trapped.

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