on edge - Story 96708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom seemed to have thickened, making it hard to breathe. David was talking about his childhood, his words echoing in the confined space. His voice, generally friendly, now irritated Maria. She pretended to be absorbed in her phone, but her peripheral vision constantly captured his movements.

"Camp Stargazer was the best!" he exclaimed, pouring himself another cup of coffee. "Anyone else from there?" He looked straight at her.

Maria’s heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn’t meet his eyes, concentrating on the grain of the countertop. "Stargazer? No, never." She hoped he wouldn’t probe. She wanted to disappear.

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