on edge - Story 96717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter felt like a brick in her stomach. Maria reread the words on the notice, each syllable a fresh wound. Her shoulders slumped. Her carefully constructed life was unraveling before her eyes.

She clutched the notice tightly, her knuckles white. She sat in the armchair, staring at nothing. The room felt cold, the silence deafening. A sob escaped her lips.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the rising tide of panic. The taste of bile rose in her throat. She fought to regain control, but the fear was overwhelming. She felt powerless and lost.

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