on edge - Story 96250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words replayed in David's head, each syllable a hammer blow to his composure. He clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to find a rhythm. This wasn't happening. Someone else's records? It felt surreal.

He abruptly stood, pushing back his chair, the scraping sound echoing in the empty conference room. He needed to move, to do *something*. Anything. He started to pace, his steps erratic and uncoordinated.

He stopped, his gaze fixed on a framed landscape photograph on the wall. He couldn't see the beauty of it. All he saw was chaos, a fractured world. He turned and left, the door swinging shut behind him with a resounding click.

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