on edge - Story 96169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise was deafening. He hated weddings, but he had promised. He saw her, surrounded by her friends. It felt like a punch to the gut. He felt as though his heart had skipped a beat. He knew he should approach her, say hello. But he couldn't.

He watched her from across the room. He felt a growing sense of panic. He felt the blood rush to his head. He made his way to the bar, and asked for a strong drink. The familiar burn was a welcome distraction.

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