on edge - Story 96408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the living room was thick with the scent of old books and potpourri. He kept clenching and unclenching his fists, the movement a silent battle with his nerves. His sister, Rachel, was crying softly, her grief a tangible presence in the room.

He wanted to comfort her, but the words wouldn't come. The house felt like a mausoleum, each object a reminder of their loss. A floorboard groaned in the hallway, and he jumped, his heart racing. "What was that?" he asked, his voice strained.

Rachel shook her head, tears streaming down her face. He just needed to be away from here.

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