on edge - Story 96668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was the worst part. Mark shifted from one foot to the other, making a scraping sound against the metal floor. He was not used to this. He was not used to being confined.

“Do you think they know we’re in here?” he asked, his voice strained. His coworker, Susan, just shrugged. Mark had been the one to call maintenance the last time. Now this.

He started to pace, his steps short and frantic. The small enclosure felt smaller with each pass. He needed to be *somewhere* else. He needed to be *doing* something.

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