on edge - Story 96420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the casino seemed to mock Emily. She clutched the wallet in her trembling hand. The sounds of slot machines and the chatter of gamblers were a jarring contrast to the quiet desperation that consumed her.

She approached the cashier, and she placed the wallet in front of her. The woman looked at it, then at her. She felt like she would say something.

Every movement of the other gamblers seemed pointed. She felt a burning sensation in her chest. She needed to make a decision, and she needed to do it now.

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