on edge - Story 96636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, its contents a stark reminder of his past mistakes. He couldn't seem to get the words out of his head. He was in his childhood bedroom, now a spare room, a space saturated with memories he'd tried to bury. He paced from wall to wall, his restless energy making him want to break something. He imagined his younger self, so full of hope, then the disappointment of his future. The air grew thick, making him feel like he was choking. He ripped the letter to shreds.

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