on edge - Story 96707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant ringing of the phone felt like needles pricking at Elena’s skin. Every interaction in the office seemed designed to grate. Her new coworker, Ben, was leaning against the counter, casual and relaxed. It made her skin crawl.

"I loved the summer at Camp Skylark," Ben said, as he took a sip of his coffee. “Such a great time. Did you ever go?”

Elena's throat constricted. She swallowed, trying to force the lump down. "Skylark? No. Never." She avoided his gaze, focusing instead on the flickering fluorescent lights. The lights felt like they were getting closer, the hum louder.

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