on edge - Story 96538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in David’s hand. He stared at it, the screen displaying the name of his parents. He hadn't called them. He couldn't. The discovery of the mistake with the scholarship had sent a wave of panic through him. It left him feeling hollow.

The money, the assurance it gave him, was gone, replaced by a dark, looming worry. He felt the cold seep into his bones. His mind raced, calculating expenses, imagining the crushing weight of debt. He couldn't bring himself to face the truth.

He took a shaky breath, his throat suddenly dry. His chest was tight, and the air wouldn't fill his lungs. He felt paralyzed, unable to move, trapped in a silent, suffocating dread.

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