on edge - Story 96526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright, dear?” Her mother’s voice, concerned, cut through the fog in Clara’s mind. Clara blinked, surprised by her mother’s question. She hadn’t even realized she was muttering under her breath. The accusations against the renowned author, Vivian Sterling, reverberated in her mind.

“Fine,” she forced a smile, but her voice was tight. She couldn’t shake the feeling of disquiet. She had been a fan of Vivian Sterling for years. Every book had been a comfort.

She pushed away from the kitchen table, the sudden movement causing her to knock over her chair. The crash was loud, startling. She needed to be alone. She went to her room, wanting to curl up in a ball.

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