on edge - Story 96680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well in days. The prospect of Professor Garcia's departure hung over him, a dark cloud. Ben found himself snapping at his roommate, the smallest irritations setting him off. Even his favorite coffee tasted bitter.

He sat in the library, staring at the pages of his research paper, which seemed to mock him. His mind raced, unable to focus. He ran his hand through his hair again and again.

He needed answers. He needed a plan. And he needed it now.

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