on edge - Story 96507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shrill ringing of the doorbell cut through the quiet of the morning, making her jump. Then, she heard the frantic barking. He was out again.

She didn't even bother to look through the peephole. She knew exactly what she'd find. Her jaw clenched. Her hands began to shake as she opened the door.

There, on her welcome mat, stood the same scruffy terrier. She closed her eyes. It was going to be a long day. She could already feel the thrumming in her head begin.

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