on edge - Story 96654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt colder than usual, the air thick with tension. Liam fiddled with his tie, the fabric suddenly feeling too tight. He was about to cross-examine a key witness, and he was already sweating. His thumbs clumsily swiped across his phone's screen. A message intended for his legal team, a quick summary of their strategy, landed in the inbox of the opposing counsel. He stared at the error, his mouth suddenly dry. He felt a sudden wave of dizziness and a hot flush wash over his skin.

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