on edge - Story 96688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of old books, typically a comfort, now felt oppressive. George ran his hand through his thinning hair, his brow furrowed. His collection of first editions, his sanctuary, was now invaded by his son, Oliver.

Oliver, driven by a frantic energy, was devouring the books, marking them, bending the pages, and demanding to know the stories behind each of them. The beautiful, pristine volumes were being ruined. George's jaw clenched.

"Dad! Read me this one!" Oliver demanded, thrusting a battered copy of *Moby Dick* toward him. George felt a surge of panic. He needed to be away from the chaos, away from Oliver.

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