on edge - Story 96366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Morning, Sarah!” called the cheerful postman. Sarah could only manage a weak smile in response. The world felt muffled, distant. The card was a sharp jab in the side.

She entered her house and almost tripped over her own feet, her muscles tight and strung. She had hardly touched her food in days. The card felt like a warning she couldn't interpret.

She opened the card with shaking fingers. Inside, it simply said, "Happy Birthday." But the handwriting was familiar, too familiar. It was his. She felt a wave of nausea, and slumped down in the chair, her mind swirling.

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