on edge - Story 96647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights seemed to flicker, and the hum of the computers became a deafening roar. Kevin’s vision was blurring at the edges. His mouth tasted dry. He had felt like this before, just before a panic attack.

He knew he should concentrate, but his mind refused to cooperate. He kept replaying the rumors in his head, each repetition amplifying his sense of dread.

He grabbed his jacket. He needed air. He needed to get out. His legs felt shaky.

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