on edge - Story 96147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys felt heavy in her hand. She stood in front of the locked door to the clinic, the wind whipping her hair across her face. He’d been the only constant in her professional life. The note on the door was brief, impersonal, offering no explanation. The responsibility now fell on her. A wave of nausea rolled through her, followed by a dizzying lightheadedness. She fumbled with the keys, her fingers clumsy and unsure.

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