on edge - Story 96268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt endless. The sun was setting, casting long, distorted shadows that seemed to mock Ben's dejection. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles ached. He kept replaying the tryouts in his mind, each mistake magnified, each missed opportunity a fresh wound.

He felt a strange lightness in his head, a disconnect from his body. His vision seemed to tunnel, focusing solely on the road ahead. His foot pressed harder on the accelerator, the engine roaring in protest. He desperately wanted to outrun the pain, to leave it behind.

The world blurred, the trees whizzing past in a dizzying blur. He fought the urge to close his eyes, to shut out the world and the crushing weight of his disappointment.

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