on edge - Story 96557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant clicking of the mouse felt like a personal attack. David ran his hands through his hair, tugging at the strands. He couldn't seem to focus on the work in front of him. A ferret. Sarah wanted a ferret. The thought of one running loose in the apartment made him jump.

He’d spent the last hour staring at the blank screen, the words refusing to form. He wasn’t sure how he was going to explain the mess. He needed to work, but the thought of the ferret was a huge distraction. The constant thought was like a buzzing in his ears.

Sarah walked over, a playful smile on her face. “Wouldn’t it be adorable?” she asked. He just stared at her, the smile feeling like a threat.

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