on edge - Story 96156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe they’re making us wait together,” Maya muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She avoided eye contact with her friend, Chloe, sitting across from her. It felt like they were in some sort of contest, not friends. The silence was becoming suffocating.

She tapped her foot against the tiled floor, a frantic rhythm that mirrored the pounding of her heart. She hadn’t slept well, and now her eyes felt gritty and tired. The coffee she'd drunk earlier had done nothing to settle her agitation.

She wished she could know what Chloe was thinking. Was she confident? Had she prepared better? The thought gnawed at her, fueling her disquiet. She wanted to scream, to run.

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