on edge - Story 96559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him. Peter sat stiffly on the couch, the remote clutched so hard his knuckles were white. A lizard. Emily wanted a lizard. He felt the familiar thrum of anxiety begin in his chest, making his breaths shallow and fast.

The image of a terrarium, the heat lamp, the insects…it all felt so foreign, so demanding. He craved the simple peace of their apartment. The thought of something so…different, so needy, was overwhelming.

He could hear Emily’s excited chatter from the other room and the chatter was starting to annoy him. He forced a smile as she approached him, eyes gleaming. It was a fake smile, the kind he couldn't control.

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