on edge - Story 96233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the fragile peace of her morning. She let it ring, each shrill vibration a hammer blow against her skull. Her stomach churned, a knot of dread twisting tighter with every passing second. Finally, she snatched it up, her voice a strained whisper when she answered. The caller, a former school friend, sounded upbeat, almost bubbly. The simple question, "Have you seen...?" sent a shiver down her spine. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe.

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