on edge - Story 96699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch meeting stretched on, each course an exercise in forced pleasantries. Her appetite had vanished completely. The steak sat untouched on her plate. David, across the table, was animated, laughing freely.

She found herself analyzing his every gesture, every intonation, desperately searching for any sign, any indication. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

She picked at her salad, pushing the leaves around her plate, the food seemed like a foreign substance. She wanted to interrupt the conversation, to scream out what she felt.

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