on edge - Story 96596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in front of the mirror, staring at his reflection. Thomas, always so sure of himself, felt a flicker of doubt, a tiny crack in the foundation of his confidence. He hadn't slept, hadn't eaten.

His gaze flickered to the rejection letter lying on the vanity. He winced, as if the words themselves were a physical blow. The skin around his eyes felt tight, stretched.

He splashed cold water on his face, hoping to shock himself back to reality. The water ran down his neck, cold and clammy. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to escape the confines of his own skin.

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