on edge - Story 96270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner table felt like a battlefield. The aroma of roasted chicken, usually comforting, turned my stomach. Emily poked at her food, unable to swallow. The news, the devastating news of her rejection from the cheerleading squad, hung heavy in the air.

Her mother kept trying to make conversation, her voice a cheerful, unwelcome intrusion. Emily responded in monosyllables, her answers clipped and strained. A knot formed in her throat, making it difficult to speak, to breathe.

She pushed back from the table, the chair scraping loudly against the floor. She needed to be alone, to escape the pitying glances, the unspoken judgments. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the sting of unshed tears.

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