on edge - Story 96577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diner was almost empty at this hour. Sarah kept drumming her fingers on the table, the metallic clatter a relentless percussion in her ears. She was supposed to meet Ben. She had been waiting for twenty minutes and the time seemed to drag on.

A man entered. It was Ben. He looked exactly as she remembered. She felt her stomach drop and her mouth go dry. He scanned the room, then his gaze met hers. Recognition, followed by… nothing.

“Ben?” she asked, her voice cracking. He looked at her, his expression neutral. “I’m afraid I don’t know you," he said. The words hung in the air, heavy and cold. She felt the urge to jump out of her seat and run.

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