on edge - Story 96694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He gripped the handrail, his knuckles white. Each floor felt like a descent into the unknown. The air grew thinner with every level.

He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic rhythm that echoed in his ears. He imagined the meeting room, the faces, the verdict. The thought made his stomach twist into a knot.

He tried to steady his breathing, inhaling deeply, but the air felt stale, insufficient. He felt like a fly trapped in a jar.

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