The silence of the house was oppressive. Kevin replayed every conversation, every shared moment, looking for a sign, a clue. He felt a cold dread wrapping around him. The secret social media account he’d uncovered was a stark betrayal of trust.

He wandered through the house, unable to find comfort anywhere. He felt a buzzing in his ears, a constant reminder of his anxiety. His palms were slick with sweat. He felt the urgent need to distance himself, to escape.

He slammed his fist on the kitchen counter, the sound echoing in the stillness. He felt lost and confused. The walls were closing 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:
πŸ˜–0.228
😣0.224
worse0.223
urges0.216
느껴0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283