on edge - Story 96210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. The empty space in the driveway was a black hole, sucking the joy from the morning. He tried to think, but his thoughts were a jumbled mess. He needed to leave, to get away, to escape the feeling that everything was collapsing around him.

He reached for his phone, his fingers clumsy, his hands shaking. He fumbled with the screen. He could feel his pulse hammering against his fingertips. His vision blurred at the edges.

He took a deep breath, trying to regain his composure. He needed to fix this, to get his car back. He just needed to figure out what was happening. He felt a sense of panic rising inside him.

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