on edge - Story 96368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crunch of leaves under her boots was the only sound as Elena walked to the mailbox. The card, a stark white envelope, stood out amongst the usual bills. She was constantly on alert, her senses heightened.

She went back inside and closed the door. She looked around, making sure no one was there. She went to the kitchen and ran the tap. The sound was comforting, a small shield against the silence.

She unfolded the card, and found only a line of music. It was a song she knew well, a song she had written and dedicated to the girl that was taken away from her. Elena’s eyes filled with tears, her breath hitched, and she realized the card was from her.

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