on edge - Story 96505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent yapping was like a physical assault. David flinched, the sound making him feel as though his skin was crawling. He could feel a headache beginning behind his eyes.

He saw the German Shepherd dart through the hole in the fence. His fists clenched, drawing his nails into his palms. He didn’t want to see it again.

He slammed his fist on the kitchen counter. “Damn it!” he barked, the sound sharp in the quiet kitchen. He hated this tension building up.

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