on edge - Story 96316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the small apartment crackled with a strange energy. David watched as Michael carefully arranged the ingredients for dinner, the movements precise and deliberate. Michael had always been a terrible cook. Now, he was suddenly trying to prepare a complicated Japanese meal. He even started to watch anime every night.

He watched Michael slice a cucumber, his brow furrowed in concentration. The knife made a rhythmic *shick* sound against the cutting board.

“Dinner will be ready soon, *itoshi no hito*,” Michael said, his back still turned.

David felt his stomach drop. *Itoshi no hito*, his beloved. The words hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. A cold dread seeped through him. He couldn't meet his eyes, his gaze fixed on the floor.

He felt a pressure building in his chest.

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