on edge - Story 96280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" The question hung in the air, heavy with unspoken expectations. He looked at the presentation, the colorful graphs and the buzzwords. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his stomach.

He forced a smile. He was supposed to be enthusiastic. He was supposed to be a leader. He was supposed to have the answers. He didn’t.

He took a slow sip of water, trying to buy himself some time. His palms were clammy. His shirt felt tight. He felt a cold dread settle in his bones. The presentation was all wrong. He was all wrong.

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