on edge - Story 96232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and his hands trembled slightly as he fumbled for the cigarette pack. His breath hitched in his chest as he took a drag, trying to calm the tempest raging within. The air tasted acrid, but he barely registered it. Across the room, his reflection stared back, a mask of disbelief and simmering fury. This wasn't how things were supposed to go.

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