on edge - Story 96416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you take the right turn?" Amelia asked herself, the words muffled in the car. Her fingers drummed a restless rhythm against the steering wheel. The car's engine seemed to be sputtering in time with her racing thoughts. The money from the wallet rested in the glove compartment.

She kept checking her rearview mirror. She was sure someone was following her. She changed lanes, then changed back. The familiar route home had suddenly transformed into an obstacle course, each turn a potential trap.

She pulled over to the side of the road, and she took a few deep breaths.

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