on edge - Story 96121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering departure board glared at Amelia. "DELAYED." The word pulsed, a malevolent heartbeat against her frayed nerves. Her grandmother's 80th birthday. A trip planned for months. She bounced her leg, a frantic drumbeat against the sterile floor. Each passing minute was a chisel, carving away at her carefully constructed composure. She clenched her jaw, the muscles screaming in protest. A flight attendant’s bland smile seemed a personal affront. "Another announcement soon," the woman chirped, oblivious to the volcano about to erupt inside Amelia.

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