on edge - Story 96407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt like a cage to Sam. He was pacing, a restless energy coursing through him. His sister, Olivia, was carefully packing dishes, her movements slow and deliberate.

He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, a prickly sensation crawling beneath his skin. The silence was deafening, broken only by the rhythmic clinking of china.

"Can you just... hurry up?" he blurted out, the words sharper than he intended. Olivia flinched. He immediately regretted it, but the unease was rising within him. He felt trapped.

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