on edge - Story 96675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tap, tap, tap of Professor Evans’s pen against the table was driving Clara up the wall. Usually, she found it a comforting rhythm, a sign of focus. Today, it was an incessant drumbeat, ratcheting up her anxiety. She picked at a loose thread on her jeans.

"So, Clara," Evans said finally, his voice oddly detached. "I have an announcement to make."

Clara braced herself, her breath catching in her throat. She found the walls closing in. The room felt suddenly too small. This all felt like a bad dream.

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