on edge - Story 96580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, hushed. He ran a hand over the worn cover of the book he held, the one they used to read together, the one they had loved. He finally saw her at the computer. He found himself unable to move.

He eventually walked over to her. He felt a strange tension. He stood before her. "Rachel?" he asked, the words barely a whisper. She looked up, her expression curious, then blank.

"Yes?" she replied, her voice soft. "It's… it's Paul." He felt his throat constrict. Her eyes narrowed just slightly. "I'm afraid I don't recall. Do I know you?" He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to 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