Her stomach flipped. Mr. Miller, her gym teacher, had just requested to follow her on TikTok. Sheโ€™d made some questionable dance videos last week, and she was mortified. The idea of him seeing them was a pressure, a heaviness in her chest. She wanted to scream, to run. She felt a constant urge to wring her hands.

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:
๐Ÿ˜–0.228
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.224
worse0.223
urges0.216
๋А๊ปด0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283