on edge - Story 96673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating. Sarah, hunched over a towering stack of books, felt a persistent prickling sensation behind her eyes. Her vision blurred, and the words on the page swam before her. She tried to concentrate on the intricacies of her quantum physics thesis, but her mind kept ricocheting back to the announcement: Professor Chen was accepting a position elsewhere.

A tremor ran through her, starting at her fingers and spreading upwards. Her pen, usually a reliable extension of her thoughts, felt clumsy and heavy in her hand. She slammed her fist on the table, startling a nearby student.

She needed to get out, away from the stale air and the impending sense of… something bad.

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