on edge - Story 96409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around Daniel, each room closing in on him. He picked up a family portrait, his grandmother's face staring back at him with an unnerving intensity. His sister, Sophia, was silent, her usual chatter silenced by the weight of the day.

A fly buzzed persistently against the windowpane, a tiny, irritating sound that amplified the tension. He slammed the portrait back onto the table. The noise echoed in the quiet room.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid beat of his heart. The thought of staying here one more minute filled him with dread.

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