on edge - Story 96674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallway buzzed with hushed whispers. Michael clutched the faded, well-worn copy of his thesis, the paper crinkling under his sweaty palms. He’d seen the notice: Professor Dubois, his dissertation director, was relocating to a university in the Pacific Northwest. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He pictured his carefully planned schedule, his meticulously crafted research project, and it all felt...wrong. He avoided eye contact with everyone.

His phone buzzed. He ignored it. His future, once brightly illuminated, now felt shrouded in an unsettling fog.

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