on edge - Story 96404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight sliced through the dusty windows, illuminating motes of dust that danced in the air. Amelia kept touching the worn fabric of her grandmother's armchair, a nervous habit she hadn’t realized she had. Her brother, Daniel, was rummaging through a box of old photographs.

Every rustle of paper, every creak of the floorboards, set her teeth on edge. The quiet of the house, usually a source of peace, was now a palpable weight. "Find anything good?" she asked, her voice sounding unnaturally loud in the silence.

He held up a faded picture of their grandmother as a young woman. Amelia snatched it from him, her heart thudding against her ribs. She needed to leave.

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