on edge - Story 96124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped seat seemed to shrink further with each passing moment. Thomas drummed his fingers on the armrest, the rhythmic tapping a frantic counterpoint to the drone of the airport. His daughter’s graduation. A milestone. He hadn’t missed a single school event, not one. Now this. He shot a glare at the bored-looking pilot striding past. His stomach churned. He could barely contain the restless feeling bubbling up inside him.

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