on edge - Story 96298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a symphony of chaos, but for once, it did not comfort her. It was supposed to be a surprise, a grand gesture.

She stood frozen in place, surrounded by the clamor of vendors and shoppers. The air felt thin and difficult to breathe.

Her hands were balled into fists. She focused on the cobblestones beneath her feet, the only thing that felt real. Her hands were starting to shake.

A shop owner caught her eye, and she quickly looked away.

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