on edge - Story 96206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," she muttered, the words barely audible. The absence in the driveway felt like a physical blow. The air around her seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. She checked her pockets, her purse, her keys, her license. All there.

She replayed the night in her mind, searching for a reason, a mistake. Every detail seemed to blur. She couldn't focus. Her thoughts bounced around her skull, like caged birds.

She saw the tow truck on the next street, her blood turning to ice. The driver, oblivious, whistling a cheerful tune. She forced her legs to carry her forward, her heart pounding against her ribs.

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