on edge - Story 96560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tap, tap, tap of the rain against the window seemed to echo in her skull. Maria slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt noise loud in the quiet apartment. A guinea pig. Ben wanted a guinea pig. She felt a tremor of frustration ripple through her.

The image of the cage, the hay, the constant noise, the responsibility, made her heart pound in her chest. She needed to concentrate on her studies. She could not handle it. The thought of a new commitment was exhausting.

Ben burst into the room, his face beaming. “I found the cutest one!” he announced. She looked up and glared at him, the corner of her lips twitching with a barely controlled anger. She just wanted him to go away.

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