on edge - Story 96369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast a long shadow, as Robert picked up the mail. The card felt like a cold stone in his hand. He was on edge, a tightly wound spring, ready to snap. He hadn't slept well in days.

He locked all the doors, and drew all the curtains. He checked the locks on the windows. He poured a glass of whiskey, and it nearly spilled as his hand shook. He stared at the liquid, watching it slosh around.

The card contained a photo of his mother. She had been dead for many years. Underneath, it said, "Miss you." He put the card down, and leaned against the wall.

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