on edge - Story 96510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent scratching at the back door sent a jolt through him. He hadn’t been able to sleep well. The persistent noise amplified his discomfort.

He peered through the blinds, and sure enough, there was the same mutt staring back at him. It was a familiar pattern that had become increasingly difficult to tolerate.

He took a slow breath, his fingers tracing the outline of the window frame. "Just breathe," he murmured to himself, trying to ignore the hammering in his chest.

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