on edge - Story 96678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university cafeteria, usually a haven of comforting chaos, felt like a pressure cooker. Mark picked at his sandwich, the food suddenly tasteless. He kept glancing at the door, hoping to spot Professor Olsen, his advisor.

The news had spread like wildfire. Olsen was leaving. He needed to talk to him. He needed to know what this meant for his dissertation. His entire stomach was tied in knots.

He forced down a bite of his sandwich, each chew a laborious effort.

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