on edge - Story 96422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his small apartment, the worn rug offering little solace to his restless feet. The invitation sat unopened on his coffee table, a white flag waving in a war he wasn’t sure he wanted to fight. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the action a familiar gesture of frustration. His jaw was clenched so tightly he felt a dull ache behind his teeth.

"Just go," he muttered to the empty room. But the thought of seeing *them* again, of facing the ghosts of his teenage failures, sent a cold wave of dread through him. He stopped pacing, his gaze fixed on the unopened envelope. He felt a need to break something.

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