on edge - Story 96574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Mark ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't shaken. He’d seen Chloe's name on the program. After all this time, he finally had the chance to speak with her.

He finally located her backstage. The air around her was a whirlwind of activity, but she stood apart, a slight smile on her face. He stepped forward. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee.

“Chloe?” he said, his voice barely audible over the din. She turned, her eyes meeting his. She paused, her smile faltering, replaced by a polite, questioning look. “I… I think we went to school together. Mark?”

She tilted her head. "I'm sorry. I don't recall." The blood drained from his face. He felt a hollow emptiness.

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