on edge - Story 96500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a little longer," Maya muttered under her breath, staring at the disassembled machine on the table. Each screw, each wire, was a testament to her lost efforts. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a constant battle against tears.

She'd been so close, so confident. Now she was facing debt and ridicule. She couldn't shake the feeling that she was being watched.

She reached for a wrench, her hand trembling so badly she dropped it with a loud clang. She bent to pick it up, her back aching. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It wouldn't stop, it never stopped. The world was an enemy.

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