on edge - Story 96345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed down, turning the asphalt into a shimmering mirage. Claire wiped a fresh line of sweat off her brow. She was jumpy, irritable. Each loud laugh from the other shoppers, each car horn that blared from the street, sent a jolt of anxiety through her. She was snapping at everyone. Her gaze was frantic, as if searching for something. Then she saw it, tucked away in a corner: a familiar, worn bear with a missing paw. Her stomach lurched. Memories, unwelcome and unwanted, flooded her mind, making her want to bolt.

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