on edge - Story 96709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt like a pressure cooker, each noise, each movement, a source of torment. The gentle tap of Sarah’s pen. The murmur of a phone conversation. It all served to amplify the unease within. The new intern began to talk about a summer camp, something called Sunnyside. The name made him shudder.

"I loved my summers at Sunnyside," the intern said. "Anyone ever go?" She was looking directly at him. He felt as though he’d been plunged into ice water.

He forced a smile, his muscles aching with the effort. "Sunnyside? Never." His mouth felt dry. He hoped she wouldn't continue. He did not want to be near her.

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