on edge - Story 96650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache began as a dull ache behind her eyes and quickly became a pounding. Jessica felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The feeling that she was about to be sick was growing. This could not be happening.

She found herself making mistakes, misfiling documents, forgetting deadlines. Her colleagues, sensing her distress, kept their distance.

She went home early, the long drive filled with a gnawing anxiety, a fear that settled deep in her bones, and wouldn't leave.

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