The coffee shop buzzed with a Saturday morning clamor, but Sarah barely registered it. Sheโ€™d been up since dawn, the events of the night before replaying in her mind. Her fingers danced across the screen, composing a text to her best friend, detailing the disastrous date. Except it hadn't gone to her friend. It had gone to the date himself. She quickly shut off her phone and pressed it face down on the table, willing herself to become invisible. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in her chest.

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:
๐Ÿ˜–0.228
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.224
worse0.223
urges0.216
๋А๊ปด0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283