on edge - Story 96621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed, a tiny tremor of unease shooting up her spine. Mrs. Gable, English Literature. Following. She’d been meticulously curating her online presence, thinking she was safe. Now, every carefully posed selfie, every witty comment, felt like a public confession. Her fingers tightened around her phone, her knuckles turning white. She immediately scrolled back through her own feed, re-evaluating every post, every like, every comment. Her stomach twisted, a cold knot forming in the pit of her being.

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