on edge - Story 96646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Anything new?" whispered Maria. Her voice was hoarse, her eyes wide. She was crouched by her friend's desk, like a conspirator in a spy film. The air felt charged with unspoken anxiety.

Her friend shook her head, but that didn't help. The knot in Maria's stomach tightened. The impending sale had turned the office into a pressure cooker, filled with whispers and glances.

She spent the afternoon staring out the window, her mind racing. What would she do? Where would she go? The uncertainty was a physical weight, pressing down on her shoulders.

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