on edge - Story 96299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, scrutinizing every detail. His tie felt tight. The shirt felt wrong. He'd put in the effort, the planning, the anticipation.

He heard his phone buzz in the other room. He hesitated, then sprinted, not wanting to miss a thing.

The message. The dreaded message. His chest tightened, making it difficult to breathe. The mirror reflected a stranger, a caricature of the man he thought he was.

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