on edge - Story 96205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of fear coated his tongue. The engine of the car, his sanctuary, was missing. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the rough stubble catch beneath his nails. He was late, late for everything.

He paced his living room, a caged animal. He needed to be *there*, but it felt like a trap had been sprung. He knew he was the only one who could get him out of the situation, but his mind seemed to be working in molasses.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to dismantle something, anything. He needed an outlet, a release. He needed to breathe. He threw open the front door and took a huge gulp of the crisp morning air, his vision swimming.

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