on edge - Story 96300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating, despite the cavernous space and high ceilings. She wandered the aisles aimlessly, the spines of the books blurring before her eyes. The quiet was almost unbearable.

Her fingers traced the raised lettering of a book, her touch jittery. She had made so many plans, created so many scenarios.

Her phone rang. It was her best friend, who sounded unusually quiet.

The news hit her like a physical blow, and she stumbled, clutching at a nearby bookshelf for support.

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