on edge - Story 96309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself staring at the framed photo on her desk, a picture of her family laughing on a beach vacation. It felt like a lifetime ago. A wave of nausea washed over her. She felt a growing sense of detachment, as if the life she had built was somehow slipping away.

She pushed back from her desk and walked to the window, the city sprawling below. She saw the new hire, happy, leaving for the day. Her chest felt constricted. She took a deep, shaky breath, trying to calm herself.

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