on edge - Story 96447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light from the window illuminated specks of dust swirling in the air. The room seemed different, wrong. His stomach felt heavy.

He found his roommate, Kevin, listening to music, headphones on, a book open on his lap. The journal lay face down on the desk.

He moved to his own desk and began to look for the charger for his laptop. He couldn't find it. He checked the drawer again, then again.

“Everything okay, man?” Kevin asked, glancing up.

He jumped. He said "Yeah," too quickly.

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