on edge - Story 96662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his palms begin to sweat, a clammy dampness that threatened to soak through his shirt. Michael fidgeted with the tie around his neck, loosening it slightly. His gaze bounced between the floor indicator lights and the impassive face of his coworker, Emily.

"Anything?" Emily asked, her voice calm and steady. He shook his head, unable to meet her gaze. The silence was becoming suffocating. He needed to DO something, to *anything* to break the mounting tension.

He pictured the emails piling up in his inbox, the looming deadline. His chest felt constricted, as if a weight were pressing down. He imagined being trapped here forever. He would need to be out of here. He reached out to press the emergency button. It felt like an eternity.

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