on edge - Story 96177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“So, you’re telling me…” Maria’s voice trailed off. She took a shaky breath, her fingers twisting around the strap of her handbag. She'd just been told that Isabella, her supposed colleague, didn't work at the publishing house at all. She felt a lightness in her head, as if she were floating. The air conditioning was failing, and the room was stifling hot. She felt a burning sensation on her face.

Maria felt the urge to flee.

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