on edge - Story 96669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation, the waiting, were excruciating. Every creak and groan of the elevator seemed to amplify the feeling. He could feel a pressure building behind his eyes.

Brian ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He kept replaying the events of the day in his head. What had he forgotten? What had he missed?

His breathing became rapid and shallow. He felt as though the oxygen was being sucked from the room. He closed his eyes. The feeling would not go away.

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