on edge - Story 96544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee had gone cold, the newspaper lay unread. Sarah sat rigid at the kitchen table, the laptop open in front of her. The discovery of her son's hidden account had sent a jolt of alarm through her, a wave of disquiet that was now a constant hum. He was so young, he was still her baby.

She replayed their conversations in her mind, searching for clues, for anything she might have missed. Had she failed him? Was she an incompetent parent? The questions swirled in her head, threatening to drown her.

Sarah closed the laptop with a snap. She needed to know, but she didn’t know how to begin. A feeling of dread crept over her, a premonition of something terrible.

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