on edge - Story 96716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't," Sarah muttered, her voice barely a whisper. The notice sat on the coffee table, a stark white rectangle that seemed to scream its message. She felt a tremor run through her, making her legs weak.

She took a shaky breath, trying to calm her racing heart. The apartment, usually a haven of comfort, now seemed hostile and unwelcoming. She felt a desperate need to flee.

She walked to the window and stared out at the street. The bright sunlight seemed to hurt her eyes. She felt the urge to cry. Her hands trembled as she reached for her phone, not knowing who to call.

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