on edge - Story 96196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can we go to the park later?" Maya asked, unaware of the internal turmoil her words were causing. Alex forced a smile. Mrs. Rodriguez. The name was still a whisper of fear in her mind.

She busied herself with washing dishes, the rhythmic motion a distraction. The water ran hot, scalding her hands. She couldn't believe it. Years later, and her daughter was going to be in her class.

Her heart pounded in her chest. She remembered the way Mrs. Rodriguez used to glare, the way she made her feel small. She tried to appear calm, but a tremor ran through her arms.

She had to stay strong. She would make sure Maya wasn't treated the way she was. She would protect her.

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