on edge - Story 96144 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the training manual onto the desk, the sound echoing through the otherwise quiet warehouse. The forklift, his usually reliable companion, loomed in the shadows. He kept fidgeting with his hard hat, pulling it on and off. Dr. Chen’s abrupt vanishing had left him scrambling, uncertain of how to proceed with the critical safety procedures. Every unfamiliar noise, the distant rumble of a truck, the clatter of loose tools, sent a jolt of anxiety through 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