on edge - Story 96194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride felt interminable. David kept adjusting the rearview mirror, checking his reflection as if expecting to see a different person. He had been a troubled kid, and Ms. Gable had known it. Now, his son, Ethan, would be under her watchful eye.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy. He hadn't thought about her in years. Seeing her name on the class list had been a shock, the sudden echo of the past creating a disquieting dissonance.

He pulled up to the curb, the school's facade stark and intimidating. He imagined Ethan being disciplined for something, and Ms. Gable sighing, shaking her head. The thought sent a jolt of alarm through him.

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