"He's running late," Leo muttered, his voice barely audible. He was sitting at a crowded bar, nursing a beer he barely touched. Jake, his long-time friend, had promised to meet him to watch the game. Jake had worked for a law firm. Always. Then Leo spotted him across the room, laughing with a group of people, dressed in a chef's apron, not a suit.

A tremor ran through Leo's hands, causing the glass to clink against the table. He stood up, knocking over his chair in the process. He needed some air.

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
worse0.223
urges0.216
느껴0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283