on edge - Story 96624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the library window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah couldn’t focus on her history assignment. The image of Ms. Rodriguez, her biology teacher, following her on Twitter, was a distracting presence. Every notification felt like a jolt, a reminder of her digital trail. She started to fidget, tapping her pen against the table, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she had. The silence of the library was almost deafening, amplifying the anxious beat of her own heart.

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