on edge - Story 96125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the terminal buzzed, a high-pitched whine that grated on her senses. "Delayed until further notice." The words flashed across the screen like a cruel joke. Maria gripped her luggage handle so hard her knuckles turned white. Her brother’s first art exhibition. A proud moment. She had envisioned the joy in his eyes. She paced, her movements jerky and erratic, like a trapped animal. The coffee she'd bought earlier went cold in her hand.

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