on edge - Story 96209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door shut, the sound echoing in the empty garage. He hadn't been expecting this. This. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter something. The air crackled with a low, simmering rage.

He paced the garage, his boots scuffing against the concrete floor. His fists clenched and unclenched. He ran through every scenario, every possibility, desperately seeking a logical explanation. Nothing. The blank space in the driveway screamed "defiance".

He felt a suffocating pressure in his chest. He needed to *do* something, to take control. He felt the familiar weight of dread settling in his gut.

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