on edge - Story 96370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rustle of the wind in the trees sounded menacing to Olivia. The card felt like a piece of paper that was going to bring her to her knees. She felt like someone was watching her. She'd been feeling this way for weeks now.

She slammed the door of her apartment. She walked to the center of the living room, and sat down on the floor. Everything felt too close. Every noise, every shadow, every scent, heightened her tension.

The card read: "You're next." She threw the card to the floor, and she just sat there, waiting.

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