on edge - Story 96287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office felt thick, stifling. It was a normal day, until the notification. He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, of being trapped. Peter, his former nemesis, wanted to connect.

He kept glancing at the security camera in the corner, though he knew it wasn’t him. He felt as if he would prefer to see him physically than to just see the request, as if he could prepare himself more. He fidgeted, rearranging the pens on his desk for the third time in as many minutes.

He found he couldn't sit still, and got up to go to the bathroom. He looked at his reflection, noting how pale he looked.

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