on edge - Story 96710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless tick-tock of the clock on the wall felt like the relentless beat of a drum. The rhythmic cadence was unbearable. Across the room, John, a new member of the team, seemed to be chatting with everyone. His lighthearted manner, usually a non-issue, now left Mark feeling intensely on edge. He wished he would stop talking.

“Camp Whispering Woods? That’s where I spent my childhood summers!” John looked at Mark, his smile wide. “Anyone else?”

Mark’s breath caught in his throat. He looked away, his pulse quickening. “Whispering Woods? I… no. Never.” He stared intently at his computer screen, desperately trying to focus. His skin crawled.

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