on edge - Story 96427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Can you believe it?” Janice said to her reflection in the mirror, her voice sounding strained, brittle. She kept her jaw tight, unable to relax, as she put on her lipstick. The invitation sat on her dresser, a small, square bomb. Her movements were jerky and precise.

She'd spent years carefully constructing the persona she wanted to project. Now, the reunion threatened to expose the carefully laid foundations. She felt that suffocating need to control, to shape everything. Her eyes were wide and unfocused.

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