on edge - Story 96660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news anchor’s voice droned on in the background, but David couldn’t focus. He'd just finished a tense phone call with his ex-wife regarding their children. He was about to send a comforting text to his daughter, telling her everything was okay. Instead, the message was sent to his ex-wife. His phone vibrated with a response, and he didn’t dare look. The room felt suddenly too small, the walls closing in. He felt a strong urge to get out of the house.

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