on edge - Story 96602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down Daniel’s spine as he carefully unfolded the brittle photograph. His grandfather, the war hero, the paragon of virtue… holding hands with a woman who wasn't his grandmother. The picture was taken in Paris, 1944. A city his grandfather had barely mentioned. His jaw felt tight, clamped shut.

He needed to breathe. He needed to run. This feeling, a hot coal lodged in his stomach, was overwhelming. He tossed the picture back onto the pile with a violence he hadn't intended. The house was too quiet.

He grabbed his keys and practically sprinted from the house, slamming the door behind 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