on edge - Story 96296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a bottle of water, then almost instantly put it back down. The living room was a mess, but he couldn't bring himself to care. The TV blared in the background, but he wasn't listening. He had expected so much.

He began to mutter to himself, walking from room to room. The house felt so big without anyone else there.

His best friend's phone call was a reprieve. But then the friend got right to the point: the restaurant had called.

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