on edge - Story 96189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a tremor in my hand as I held the phone. It was his, left behind on the kitchen counter. I had no business looking, but the need to know, the gnawing curiosity, was overwhelming. My mouth was dry.

I scrolled through the recent calls, my heart pounding in my ears. I saw the name, the number, again and again. The blood drained from my face. This strange and heavy feeling was a dark weight. The world seemed to tilt.

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