on edge - Story 96449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hesitated at the door, his hand hovering over the handle. He felt like an intruder in his own space. His heart hammered in his chest.

His roommate, Daniel, was asleep in his bed. The journal lay on the floor near his bed.

He closed the door, slowly, quietly. He locked it. He didn't want to wake Daniel, but now he was locked inside this enclosed space.

He needed to get out, to breathe. He sat on his bed and began to bounce his leg furiously. He hated the feeling.

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