on edge - Story 96132 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah felt a constant thrum in her jaw, the muscles clenched tight. She kept cracking her knuckles, a nervous habit she hadn’t indulged in since high school. The accusations hung heavy in the air, echoing in the cramped university hallway.

“I just don't understand,” she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper, as she paced the length of the narrow space. Her palms were clammy, and she wiped them on her jeans repeatedly. The vibrant posters advertising student events seemed to mock her.

A knot of anxiety twisted in her stomach. Every sound, every footstep, seemed amplified. She had spent weeks, pouring over books, crafting her arguments. How could this be happening? She felt a desperate need to run, to escape the suffocating weight of suspicion.

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