on edge - Story 96285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt too loud, too bright. Amelia had seen the message, and the world had tilted. Mark, the boy who used to trip her in the hallway. Now, he wanted to be her "friend."

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the images that flashed behind her eyelids. His cruel eyes. His mocking laugh. The sting of humiliation.

She was trembling, she realized. Her hands wouldn't stop shaking. She got up and walked around the house. She went from room to room, touching the objects on her shelves, as if to ground herself.

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