on edge - Story 96367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Thomas as he trudged down the driveway. The mailbox seemed to leer at him. He knew he was being paranoid, but he couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom. He clutched the card in his hand, feeling like he might throw up.

He locked himself inside his house. Every creak of the floorboards, every rustle of the leaves outside made him jump. The silence felt oppressive. He stared at the walls, his heart hammering against his ribs.

He ripped open the card. It was a picture of him and his friends, all smiling. Underneath, a single word: "Forgotten?" He threw the card across the room.

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