on edge - Story 96136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza found herself perpetually fidgeting, her leg bouncing a restless rhythm under the table during the meeting with the academic integrity board. The room, usually a source of comfort for studying, now felt like a sterile prison. She kept pulling at the hem of her sweater, a habit she'd thought she'd broken years ago.

The board members' impassive faces offered no clues to their judgment. Each question felt like a needle prick, injecting a new dose of uncertainty and fear. The air in the room felt stagnant, oppressive.

She could barely bring herself to meet their gaze. The weight of potential consequences pressed down on her, stealing her breath, constricting her chest. Her thoughts tumbled over one another, a chaotic jumble of justifications and regrets.

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