on edge - Story 96506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again?" The word escaped Maria’s lips in a strangled whisper. She had just finished painting her fence, and now, the dog, a playful beagle, was romping through the wet paint.

She stood frozen, the paintbrush still in her hand. Her breath caught in her throat. The dog was covered in blue streaks.

Maria felt a cold wave wash over her. She knew she shouldn’t react. She knew that she should be patient. But, at this moment, she had to bite her lip to stop from crying.

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