on edge - Story 96289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, every muscle in his body tense. There it was: The friend request from the boy who’d made his life a misery. The urge to smash his phone against the wall was overwhelming.

He gripped the edge of the desk so tightly that his knuckles were white. He imagined himself doing it again and again.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. He needed to be rational. He needed to think. He couldn't. His thoughts were a frantic whirl.

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