on edge - Story 96720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the notice felt like a physical burden. Emily sat on the edge of the bed, her body trembling. The familiar sounds of the city outside – the distant sirens, the chattering of neighbors – now grated on her nerves.

She touched her chest. She needed to know that she was alive. She felt a wave of nausea, her stomach churning. She focused on the simple act of breathing, trying to find some semblance of calm.

She ran her hand over the covers of the bed. Her throat was tight, and tears pricked at her eyes. Her world was crumbling, and she didn't know what to do. The paper in her hand held her whole life.

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