on edge - Story 96148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the empty music studio, his footsteps echoing against the polished floor. The music, usually a source of solace, seemed to mock him, the unresolved melodies mirroring his own unsettled state. His hands were restless, picking at the strings of his guitar. Professor Silva’s unexplained retreat felt like a personal betrayal. He kept replaying their last conversation in his mind, desperate to find some hidden meaning.

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