on edge - Story 96235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," she muttered under her breath, staring at her reflection. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the bathroom. Her hands, clammy and cold, struggled to secure her hair in a ponytail. The mirror reflected a stranger, a tense caricature of herself. She splashed cold water on her face, but it offered no relief. The words, so carelessly written years ago, now felt like a brand seared into her skin.

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