on edge - Story 96600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a bottle of whiskey, the amber liquid glinting in the dim light of the living room. James poured a generous amount into a glass, his hand unsteady. The rejection letter lay forgotten on the coffee table, a white flag of defeat.

He took a large gulp, the alcohol burning its way down his throat. He needed something, anything, to numb the feeling that gnawed at his insides.

He slammed the glass back down, the sound echoing in the silent room. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to self-destruct. He looked around the room, feeling trapped. He felt like he couldn't breathe.

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