on edge - Story 96615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware grated on Amelia's ears. She took another sip of her wine, its bitterness a welcome distraction. Her gaze darted around the room, taking in every detail – the perfectly arranged centerpieces, the overly bright lighting, the fake smiles.

Her palms were damp, and she surreptitiously wiped them on her silk skirt. She felt a growing sense of panic, a tightening in her chest. She wanted to scream, to run. She wanted it all to stop.

The emcee’s voice cut through the noise, announcing her. She stood, her legs feeling like jelly. She took a step towards the microphone, each movement an immense effort. She had to focus, she told herself. She had to.

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