on edge - Story 96400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt colder than usual. Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm inside Amelia. She'd found the letter inside a forgotten cookbook. The contents of the letter were simple: a final goodbye.

She picked it up, then put it down, again and again. Each time, a new wave of nausea washed over her. She paced the kitchen, the floorboards groaning under her weight. The feeling was suffocating.

She needed to scream, to lash out. The words on the page clawed at her, each one a sharp pain in her chest. She grabbed a lighter and set the letter aflame, watching the paper curl and shrivel, feeling no relief, only a desperate, aching emptiness.

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