on edge - Story 96107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room, usually a comforting white noise, sounded like a swarm of angry bees today. Michael, the new intern, kept adjusting his glasses, his eyes darting around the room as he absorbed information. He looked so young, so… eager. And it was driving him crazy.

He crossed his arms, the action stiff and unnatural. He kept catching his breath. He had to be calm.

“Alright, Michael,” he said, his voice a strained monotone. “So, the first thing we do is…” He trailed off, his mind blank. He felt a sudden, almost overwhelming urge to slam his fist on the desk.

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