on edge - Story 96705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clicking of Leo's keyboard felt like a frantic heartbeat in his ears. He kept glancing up at Emily, his new boss, as she discussed the new project. She was bubbly and energetic, and it grated on his nerves. She suddenly paused, a smile spreading across her face.

“Camp Firefly was the best,” she said, her eyes shining. “Anyone else ever go there? Learned so much!” He felt a chill go through him. He was sure he’d seen her there, that summer.

He took a deep, shaky breath, trying to appear calm. “Firefly? No, but I know someone who did.” He hoped the conversation would end. He wanted her to go away.

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