He stared at the blank TV screen. The apartment felt suffocating, each breath a conscious effort. He’d caught her once, whispering into her phone late at night, a sound that sliced through the quiet, and now his mind was racing. He needed air, needed to break free from this relentless feeling of being trapped.

He kept replaying the events, looking for clues, for hints. The way she'd avoid his gaze, the way she jumped whenever her phone rang. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He stood, pacing the worn floorboards, his anxiety growing with each step.

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:
πŸ˜–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