on edge - Story 96145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The teacup rattled precariously in her hand. The aroma of Earl Grey tea, usually a comfort, now felt cloying and irritating. She stared out the window, at the gray, overcast sky. The sudden vacancy left by Mr. Evans felt like a physical wound. She’d expected to discuss the upcoming project, to get his feedback. Now, his desk, bare save for a single, unopened letter, seemed to judge her. Each tick of the clock was a hammer blow to her already fragile composure.

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