on edge - Story 96338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the museum felt thick and suffocating. He stared at the ancient artifacts, oblivious to their historical significance. His focus was elsewhere. The note he received, the news, the end of the best bakery in town. Closed.

He wandered through the exhibits, his steps quick and uneven. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

He stopped in front of a giant sculpture. He felt a jolt of anger and frustration. He gripped the stone edge of the sculpture and wanted to strike it hard. He just turned and left.

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