on edge - Story 96583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Finn muttered under his breath, squeezing his eyes shut against the harsh glare of the studio lights. The producer had been relentless all day, pushing him to rework the bridge of his new song, "Echoes in the Void." He felt the pressure building, a knot of tension tightening in his chest.

He stepped outside for some air, seeking a moment’s respite. The city hummed around him, a symphony of car horns and distant sirens. He leaned against the brick wall, trying to loosen the grip he had on himself.

That’s when he heard it: the opening chords of “Echoes in the Void” spilling out from a nearby café. A shiver ran down his spine. His fists clenched as he realised he'd never sold them the rights.

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