on edge - Story 96378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, are you alright?" She jumped at her husband's voice, spilling coffee down her front. He was looking at her funny. She couldn’t explain the tightening in her chest, the need to check every door, every window, every lock. Every little thing felt important. She couldn't shake the sensation that something was amiss.

She began to explore. Her fingers traced the molding in the dining room. A section felt different, unnaturally cool to the touch. With a groan, the paneling came away, revealing an opening, a black hole.

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