on edge - Story 96405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The peeling wallpaper seemed to watch Liam as he moved through the rooms. He ran his hand over the smooth, worn surface of the dining table, feeling the ghost of his grandmother’s touch. His sister, Chloe, hummed a familiar tune, her attempts at cheerfulness doing little to ease the tension.

A sudden gust of wind slammed the back door shut. Liam jumped, his heart leaping into his throat. He hated this house. He hated the memories.

"What was that?" Chloe asked, her voice catching. He forced a laugh. "Just the wind." He needed to be anywhere else.

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