on edge - Story 96645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," he muttered under his breath. He hated this feeling. Mark felt like a tightly wound spring, ready to release at any moment. The air in the office felt thick, heavy, pressing down on him. The tension was palpable.

He tried to lose himself in his work, but the words on the screen blurred, and the numbers swam before his eyes. He went for a walk outside. The sunshine, the fresh air, they did nothing.

As he walked back in, he considered his mortgage, his wife's job, their kids. He sighed.

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