on edge - Story 96248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, stifling. James wandered the aisles, searching for an escape, for some sense of control. The librarian’s words still echoed, a discordant echo in his mind. The mix-up. The wrong medical history. He felt a simmering anger, a hot current running through his veins.

He pulled a book from the shelf, but his eyes wouldn't focus. The words swam before him, meaningless. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of frustration and helplessness.

He needed to be away from people, away from the world. He abruptly closed the book and replaced it. He walked quickly out, the library doors shutting behind him with a dull thud.

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