on edge - Story 96199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at the email on his phone, the screen reflecting the harsh fluorescent lights of the office. His gut churned. Ms. Albright. The woman had been the bane of his existence in high school. Now, his daughter, Chloe, would be in her class.

He abruptly closed his laptop, ignoring the unfinished work that demanded his attention. He couldn't focus. The image of Ms. Albright's critical gaze filled his mind. He felt trapped, his chest constricting.

He rose from his chair, a sense of urgency washing over him. He needed to leave. He needed air. He needed to make sure Chloe was okay.

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