on edge - Story 96484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio crackled with static, mirroring the fizzing anxiety in Daniel's mind. He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, the insistent rhythm a frantic counterpoint to the impending doom. He didn't want to get out. He couldn't.

He watched the demolition trucks crawl towards the house, slowly, methodically. He'd put this off as long as he could. Every day he hoped the deal would fall through. Now the time was here.

He could feel sweat prickling his palms. He imagined the house, its familiar facade, crumbling to dust. He imagined the rooms, each holding a precious memory, being erased. He wished he could teleport away.

He finally exhaled, a shaky, defeated sound. He grabbed the car door, pulling it open. The noise of the world became loud as he stepped out.

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