on edge - Story 96584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. Amelia shifted in her seat, the scratchy fabric of her dress a source of constant irritation. The air hung thick with unspoken accusations and hushed whispers. The trial had been dragging on for weeks, each day a new strain on her nerves.

The defense attorney rose, his voice smooth and persuasive. He began to play a recording. The song started. "Broken Promises." Her song. Her story, laid bare for everyone to dissect.

Her mouth went dry. Her hands, clammy, fumbled in her lap. The room seemed to tilt. The music became a deafening roar in her ears. She pressed her fingertips into her temples, struggling to maintain control.

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