on edge - Story 96644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant tapping of her foot against the carpet was driving her secretary mad, and she knew it. But Carol couldn't stop. The news of the impending sale had her stomach twisting. She felt as though she’d been given an endless supply of adrenaline.

She snapped at a phone call, then immediately apologized, the words catching in her throat. She had been here for 20 years. Twenty years. This company was her life.

She made herself a cup of tea, but the warmth did little to soothe her. She couldn’t sit still, pacing the length of her office, the polished wood floor reflecting her agitated figure.

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