on edge - Story 96677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the lab hummed, a jarring counterpoint to the turmoil brewing inside Emily. Her hands trembled as she meticulously arranged the beakers, a task usually performed with effortless precision. Professor Bell’s leaving felt like a personal betrayal.

She slammed the last beaker down, the glass vibrating on the metal surface. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. This was bad. She kept replaying the conversation in her head.

Emily ran her hand over her face and let out a frustrated sigh.

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