on edge - Story 96587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall vibrated with energy, the anticipation palpable. Sarah was supposed to be enjoying this. She had finally made it, she was a success. Yet, the lights, the cameras, the crowd... it was too much. She wanted to be anywhere else.

She watched the opening act, a band she'd never heard of, take the stage. She forced herself to smile. She struggled to keep up appearances. Then, the lead singer began to play the opening notes of "Silent Scream." Her own song, rearranged and given away.

Her breath hitched. She had to get out of there. Now.

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