on edge - Story 96178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. Michael gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. He kept replaying the conversation in his mind, the awkward silences, the evasive answers. James, who had been a physician according to his tales, was now admitting to being a taxi driver. The weight of the lies pressed down on him. His breath came in shallow, rapid pants.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating with the tension coursing through him. He needed to breathe.

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