on edge - Story 96290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt out of focus, the edges blurring. The notification. The name. The face. It was Chris, the boy who had made him miserable in middle school.

He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. He didn't even notice. He walked into the kitchen, the floorboards creaking under his weight. He opened the cupboard and started grabbing at food, anything. He didn't eat, he just kept putting food in his mouth.

He knew he should do something productive, but he couldn't. He didn't want to. He just wanted the feeling, the pressure in his chest, to vanish.

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