"So, you're the new guy, huh?" The voice boomed, startling David, who nearly dropped his coffee. He was already drowning in a sea of paperwork, and the move hadn't even officially started. He had been given a desk and the key card, and that was that.

He forced a smile, but his stomach churned. He hadn't slept well in days. He ran a hand through his hair, suddenly conscious of how messy it was. He was in sales now, apparently. He had no clue what he was doing.

"David," he managed, his voice sounding thin. The other man, tall and broad-shouldered, slapped him on the back with a force that almost sent him sprawling.

"Welcome aboard! Weโ€™re gonna make you a star in no time!" He didn't think he could handle the pressure. He felt the blood drain from his face.

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:
๐Ÿ˜–0.228
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.224
worse0.223
urges0.216
๋А๊ปด0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283