on edge - Story 96617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashing camera lights momentarily blinded her. She blinked, forcing herself to focus. The chatter of the crowd felt like a distant roar. The tightness in her chest was now accompanied by a dull ache behind her eyes.

She had rehearsed this countless times, but now the words seemed to have vanished. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. She could feel a bead of sweat trickle down her spine.

The applause died down, and the emcee gestured for her to begin. Her mouth felt dry, and she managed a small, almost imperceptible nod. He stepped away, and the weight of the moment crashed down on her.

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