on edge - Story 96238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one?” his therapist asked, her tone carefully neutral. He glared at the floor, refusing to meet her gaze. His jaw clenched, and his hands were balled into fists in his lap. He felt a wave of nausea, a desperate need to flee the room. The air was thick, heavy, laden with unspoken accusations. He wanted to shout, to scream, to erase the very existence of the words.

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