on edge - Story 96550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the phone felt heavy in her hand. Jessica re-read the messages, each word a pinprick to her soul. She felt a cold sensation in her chest, a feeling of utter disappointment.

She kept replaying her daughter’s online world. The aggressive tone, the cutting words. It was like her daughter was a stranger. She bit her lip and felt a tear trickle down her face.

Jessica walked away from the phone, the world around her seemed to become blurry. She felt an urgent need to escape, to run. She walked out the door and started walking, her steps becoming faster and faster.

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