on edge - Story 96508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog’s shadow moved across the blinds. John dropped the remote control. His stomach churned. He’d barely managed to relax.

He knew what was happening before he even looked out the window. The golden retriever was back, digging in his prize-winning flower bed.

John’s chest tightened. He imagined the mess he’d have to clean up. He forced himself to take a deep, steadying breath. "Not again," he murmured, his voice flat.

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