on edge - Story 96664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The minutes crawled by like agonizing hours. James repeatedly checked his watch, his knuckles white as he gripped his phone. He wanted to call his wife. He needed to hear her voice.

“Maybe we should try the emergency button again,” said Lisa, his coworker, her voice level and steady. James just nodded, not trusting himself to speak. Each failed attempt amplified the feeling. The walls were closing in.

He found himself pacing the small confines of the elevator car. Back and forth. Back and forth. Every inch of movement felt necessary, vital. He needed to burn off the anxious energy that was coursing through his veins.

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