on edge - Story 96586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Dad?" The question, soft and concerned, sliced through the chaotic noise of the family dinner. Miles forced a smile, pushing a stray strand of grey hair from his forehead. He hadn't felt right all evening. The anniversary of his wife's passing was tomorrow.

He'd been distracted, jumpy, picking at his food. He was finding it hard to stay still. The house was now filled with memories, and all of them were painful. Then, the faint strains of his song, "Fading Light," began to bleed from the radio.

He felt a sudden wave of dizziness. He excused himself, abruptly pushing away from the table. He stood, frozen in place, feeling the world spin around him.

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