on edge - Story 96307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk to work felt unusually long. Her footsteps echoed on the pavement, each one a stark, unsettling thud. Sunlight seemed too bright, the sounds of the city too loud. She had the distinct urge to retreat. To hide.

Inside, she saw the junior colleague, freshly promoted. Her smile looked smug. Her stomach knotted. The injustice of it all tightened her chest, making it hard to take a deep breath. She didn't say hello, she simply passed by, trying to make herself invisible.

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