on edge - Story 96297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat, a shallow, ragged gasp. The kitchen was spotlessly clean, reflecting the sterile white of the appliances. She had spent the morning baking, making her favorite foods, because she loved this. She loved everything about this.

The sound of her phone sliding across the counter made her jump. It was a text, not a call, and she already knew.

The news was a gut punch. She sagged against the countertop, the air leaving her lungs.

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