on edge - Story 96478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt heavy as David stared at the box. It was for "Thomas Bell," a name he was thoroughly tired of. He'd been getting packages addressed to him for months. He had tried everything to get them stopped.

He felt a tightness in his chest as he walked toward the door. Each step was a battle against a rising tide of unease. He was exhausted. He didn't want this.

He tore open the box and found a stack of old letters. They were addressed to Thomas Bell, and they had been never opened. He scanned one: each sentence was full of anger and betrayal. He tossed the letters in the trash, but he couldn't shake the feeling of being watched.

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