on edge - Story 96150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen of his computer glowed, reflecting the anxious energy thrumming through him. He reread the email notification again, the words “retired effective immediately” burning in his mind. The projects, the deadlines, everything was suddenly his responsibility, and he felt acutely unprepared. He ran a hand across his forehead, and felt a cold trickle of sweat. He slammed his fist down on the desk, the sound a release of the tension building up inside 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