on edge - Story 96246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could taste the metallic tang of fear. It coated the inside of his mouth, thick and unpleasant. The news had arrived via a curt email, a simple sentence that shattered his world. His medical history—a complete stranger's.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He hadn’t felt such a raw, untamed emotion in years. He jumped up, pacing the confined space of his office. His mind raced, imagining the possible outcomes, the potential damage.

He needed to be alone. He needed to be calm. But neither felt possible. He grabbed his coat, a futile gesture of escape. He had to get away.

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