on edge - Story 96703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in Clara's mouth. She couldn't focus on the presentation slides, her gaze darting around the room, always returning to Mark. He was across the room, fiddling with a pen, his movements animated and carefree. It made her skin crawl. Earlier, he'd mentioned a summer camp, a place called Timberwood.

A cold wave washed over her as she heard his voice, “Yeah, Timberwood was awesome, right? Did anyone else go there?” He looked directly at her.

Her palms began to sweat. She tried to smile, but her lips felt stiff. “Timberwood? I… I think I vaguely remember hearing about it.” She hated the way her voice sounded, thin and uncertain. Her gaze flickered away from his.

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