on edge - Story 96518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of chlorine filled the natatorium, a scent usually associated with joy and excitement for Michael. Today, it was a reminder of his impending fate. He clung to the edge of the pool, gazing at the crystal-clear water. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to pulse in a rhythmic, unsettling pattern.

Coach Reynolds had pulled him aside after practice, the words hanging in the air like a shroud. "I need to talk to you tomorrow, Michael." He knew. He'd seen the way the coach had been observing him, his gaze lingering, his expression unreadable.

He ran his hand through his hair, the gesture failing to dispel the disquiet that was consuming him. The water in the pool looked so inviting, but he didn't dare dive in.

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