on edge - Story 96418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pungent smell of the fish market did little to calm Rosa's nerves. The wallet felt hot in her purse. She had found it near her stall. She didn't dare look at the cash inside. The market was a flurry of activity, but all she focused on was the urgency of the moment.

She kept checking the faces of the other vendors. She felt eyes on her. Her throat tightened. She hated her indecisiveness, but she couldn't decide what she was going to do.

She quickly finished setting up her fish. It had to look normal.

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