on edge - Story 96658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, music blaring, laughter echoing. James felt out of place, uncomfortable in his too-tight suit. He'd intended to text his friend, saying he was leaving, and to hell with the small talk. Instead, the message had gone to the host, his girlfriend's brother. James saw the host across the room, smiling and heading his way. He immediately felt trapped. He downed the rest of his drink in one gulp, the alcohol burning a path down his throat.

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