on edge - Story 96302 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his apartment, the worn wooden floorboards creaking under his weight. Sleep eluded him. He replayed the conversation with his boss, Mr. Henderson, in his mind. The casual mention of salary negotiations. The way Henderson’s eyes had flickered away when he’d asked about raises. His stomach churned.

He opened the fridge, grabbed a beer, and stared at it. Didn’t want a beer. He didn’t want anything. The tiny, cramped space of his apartment felt like a cage. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He felt a profound sense of injustice, a pressure building behind his eyes. He tossed the beer back in the fridge.

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