on edge - Story 96098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink, the persistent drip of the faucet, the almost-too-familiar scent of his mother's perfume – it all felt overwhelming. He walked around the house, unable to settle, like a trapped animal.

He ran his hand along the dusty bookshelf in the living room, picking up a picture frame and dropping it again. The picture fell to the floor, breaking the glass.

“Oh, damn it!” he said, his voice too loud. His mom quickly poked her head into the living room. "What's wrong?" she asked, her voice laced with concern.

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