on edge - Story 96499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was trapped. He could feel it. The four walls of his apartment were closing in on him. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. He kept repeating the same phrases in his head. *They beat me.* *They won.* *I failed.*

He'd tried to contact the patent holder, but he was ignored. His messages went unanswered. He felt powerless. He felt small.

He slammed his fist against the wall, leaving a dent. He winced in pain, but the physical sensation didn't alleviate the pressure inside him. The world was a blur, and his future a dark, uncertain void.

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