on edge - Story 96656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the car keys in his hand, his knuckles white. The engine was already running, but he hesitated. He'd been about to text his sister a quick, comforting message about their ailing mother, but he'd sent it to his estranged father. A wave of nausea washed over him. The thought of his father's response, his judgment, brought a coldness to his hands and feet. He considered just turning off the car and going back inside.

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