on edge - Story 96509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she saw the familiar form of the escaped husky. She was outside, weeding her vegetable garden. The dog's appearance sent a jolt of alarm through her.

She straightened slowly, her back aching. She hated the feeling of being vulnerable. She had been working on a new routine to help relax and this would certainly destroy that.

She watched the dog's bounding approach, and her fingers tightened around the handle of her trowel. Her mouth felt dry.

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