on edge - Story 96558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator felt like a mocking presence in the kitchen. Lisa stood rigidly at the kitchen counter, her arms crossed tightly over her chest. A rabbit. Mark wanted a rabbit. He didn’t understand. She took a step back, the hairs on the back of her neck prickling.

She envisioned the constant chewing, the messes, the endless hay. The thought made her want to scream. She already felt overwhelmed. The addition of the fluffy creature would surely push her over the edge.

Mark strolled into the kitchen, his eyes bright. “I saw the cutest one today!” he said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. Lisa just turned away, unable to meet his gaze. She could barely take a breath.

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