on edge - Story 96594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," Leo whispered, his voice cracking. He crumpled the rejection letter in his fist, the paper crackling like a dying fire. The air in his study felt thick, heavy, as if the walls were closing in.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact reverberating through his arm. The books on the shelves seemed to leer at him. He needed to be still, to find some semblance of calm.

He took a deep breath, trying to steady his shaking hands. The world felt unbalanced, tilted. He felt a profound, unsettling disconnect from everything around him. He needed to run, to scream, to… something.

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