on edge - Story 96176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped, dimly lit room felt like it was closing in on Finn. He picked at the label of his beer bottle, his gaze fixed on the swirling condensation. He felt a throbbing pressure behind his eyes. He had just confronted Ben. Ben, who had always boasted of his high-flying career in marketing, was apparently a cashier at the grocery store.

Finn's mouth felt dry. He kept shaking his head, as if he could dislodge the image from his mind. He wanted to scream.

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