He slammed the file onto the desk, the sound echoing in the silent office. John's face was flushed, his jaw set. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. The news had hit him hard. He considered quitting before they could fire him.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to destroy something. He wanted to rage, to scream. He forced himself to sit back down, the chair creaking under his weight.

He took a deep breath, trying to regain control. It was important to look strong.

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
worse0.223
urges0.216
느껴0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283