on edge - Story 96464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a little more," the auctioneer's voice boomed across the crowded hall. Thomas clutched his hands together, his knuckles white. The air vibrated with a nervous energy, the clinking of glasses, hushed whispers, and the rapid-fire bidding. He could barely breathe.

His grandfather's fishing rod, a beautiful thing crafted from bamboo and polished wood, was being held aloft. He watched as the bids climbed higher, each one a stab of pain. The auctioneer's gaze flickered to him, a predatory glint in his eyes.

Thomas clenched his jaw. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic rhythm that threatened to break free. He wanted to shout, to scream, to stop the madness, but he could only sit, trapped, as the rod was sold.

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