on edge - Story 96718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John paced the small apartment, his agitation evident in every restless step. The notice, propped against a stack of mail, seemed to glare at him.

He picked up a glass of water, took a sip, and immediately put it back down. His hands were shaking. He ran his hand over his chin. His mind was going a million miles a minute. He didn't know where to start.

He felt like he was suffocating. He threw open the window, gulping in the fresh air. Even the wind didn't seem to help. He needed to think, but it was impossible.

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