on edge - Story 96292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. The cafe was supposed to be a hive of activity, but the place seemed to be unnaturally calm. James kept glancing at the door, expecting a specific someone to walk in. He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes.

A bead of sweat trickled down his temple, and he wiped it away with the back of his hand. Each tick of the clock felt like a hammer blow against his skull. The party was supposed to start soon.

His phone buzzed. He stared at the screen, heart hammering. The notification wasn't from the party planner. It was his aunt, asking if he was free for a quick coffee. He almost dropped the phone.

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