on edge - Story 96142 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She chewed the inside of her cheek, a familiar habit she hadn't realized she’d picked up. The silence in the gallery was suffocating, normally so soothing. He’d told her to keep an eye on things, that he’d be back shortly. His abrupt departure—a handwritten note and a forwarding address—had left her adrift. The gallery felt wrong. The lighting seemed too harsh, the artwork mocking. She felt like she was trapped in an echoing room, her own heartbeat her only companion.

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